S14E04 - Thrust!

Secrets of the Sith revealed! In order to study the treacherous Jedi's ancient enemy, the Imperial Knights traveled to Sarafur, rescuing Cole Drish the descendant of a Killik joiner whose colony had encountered the ancient Sith.

Seeking a way to delve into Cole's genetic memories, the Imperial Knights ventured to Sinkhole Station, traveling to the Realm Beyond Shadows with the mysterious Mind Walkers, and encountering an imprisoned being known as Abeloth.

After being betrayed by the station's mining guild administrator, the Mind Walkers were killed, and the Knights returned to the physical realm, though Qaala found herself harboring a dark passenger….

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hey everyone, thanks for listening to Star Wars Empire Wreckers, the Star Wars actual play podcast that is yellow. Who's ready to be yellow?

SPEAKER_07 0:08

Callacet's ready to be yellow.

SPEAKER_09 0:10

I must have missed this one.

SPEAKER_07 0:12

I don't know either. Callisette's ready to be yellow, but having jokes made that go over her head really make her feel blue.

SPEAKER_10 0:22

Uh hello. Uh je me pin croissant, and uh I don't know what uh this whole yellow business is about, but uh hello. Yellow. Yellow. I literally looked up what is yellow in French, and it's just fucking yellow. I'm like, is it like noir? I I I forget. Like, no, it's just it's just yellow spelt slightly differently. Yellow.

SPEAKER_09 0:45

Yellow.

SPEAKER_00 0:49

Starzan looked at the stars. He looked at the stars for shine for Starzan, and everything starzan, too. Yes, they were all yellow.

SPEAKER_05 1:05

And Illyria is not yellow. She is, in fact, blue, unless you are talking about her cheerful yellow personality.

SPEAKER_10 1:12

Uh, isn't uh yellow the personality of a coward?

SPEAKER_07 1:16

Yellow is the personality of piss. It is a joy personality.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

And if you're ready to be yellow, you've probably been AI generated, but if not, why don't you come along with us to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars! Secrets of the Sith Revealed! In order to study the treacherous Jedi's ancient enemy, the Imperial Knights traveled to Staraphor, rescuing Cole Drift, the descendant of a Killick joiner whose colony had encountered the ancient Sith. Seeking a way to delve into Cole's genetic memories, the Imperial Knights ventured to sinkhole station, traveling to the realm beyond shadows with the mysterious Mindwalkers and encountering an imprisoned being known as Avalon. After being betrayed by the station's mining guild administrator, the mindwalkers were killed and the knights returned to the physical realm, though Kala found herself harboring a dark passenger.

SPEAKER_07 2:08

Kala might have a little friend in her brain.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

You might.

SPEAKER_05 2:12

But only when she's close.

SPEAKER_01 2:13

Yeah, the closer you get to to Kessel.

SPEAKER_05 2:15

Yeah, to Kessel, that's what I meant. Uh nothing else.

SPEAKER_04 2:21

Uh that's the sound that Cal makes.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

But you didn't uh you didn't succeed in recruiting the Mindwalkers because they all got shot in the head.

SPEAKER_07 2:35

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:37

I swear we didn't know.

SPEAKER_07 2:39

Didn't we get our info?

SPEAKER_01 2:40

You got your info.

SPEAKER_07 2:41

Yeah, because our boy, our our Killick boy, he had his little fugue once we were in our mindwalking state.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Yeah, uh, and he kept repeating a list of planets Korban, Kaon, Chiron, Keegan, Kesh.

SPEAKER_07 2:55

Oh, I think I actually wrote those down last time too. Ugh, yeah, I was thinking ahead. Look at me go.

SPEAKER_01 3:00

But uh after after leaving Castle No Mindwalkers, um you did have a a run and you did kill the overseer though. Chris uh created a prophecy to get her murdered.

SPEAKER_10 3:13

Oh yeah. I I do appreciate how I have these visions, but these visions are specifically to fuck with to uh get us on the wrong path.

SPEAKER_07 3:26

They've served you well. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 3:28

You're funny-ish. They've kept me alive, but they haven't really kept other people alive.

SPEAKER_07 3:33

Eh, it keeps the people we need to be alive alive.

SPEAKER_01 3:37

Yeah, who cares about other people?

SPEAKER_10 3:38

That's fair.

SPEAKER_07 3:38

Yeah. You know what? That's fair.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

But after you uh return to Coruscant, you can pass along the list of planets to Renala, who does her research and eventually calls you down to the library. Books continue to get pulled off shelves and not put back.

SPEAKER_07 3:59

Ranala, you killin' me.

SPEAKER_01 4:01

She's got no assistance. There there are clone troopers that are just kind of hanging around, like guarding the place, but she is not a uh meticulous archaeologist.

SPEAKER_07 4:14

Like our our boy that we picked up, like he was acquainted with Ranala, right, Cole? Yeah. Maybe maybe he'll assist her. Please, Cole.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Cole Cole can have been trying to assist her better than uh being on a pirate planet, but you know, there's a lot. She's had months. She's had like a year plus some months to.

SPEAKER_07 4:38

She's had months to fuck up this area.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Yeah. He's not he's not cleaning it up in a in a few days or a week.

SPEAKER_07 4:45

God damn Ranala. How how has everyone been while we've been away? How's Ranala? How's Anakin?

SPEAKER_01 4:51

Anakin's been uh continuing his quest to become the most confusing motherfucker in the galaxy. Sometimes he comes back and he's normal. He hangs out in the temple with you, smokes a bong rip. Sometimes uh he's weird and standoffish. Uh it seems to depend on uh whether or not he comes back with like a new bag of lightsabers to to drop in the incinerator.

SPEAKER_07 5:19

Uh okay, w when is the mood better? Is it after the lightsabers?

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Yeah, when when he's uh completed his mission, he seems to feel better.

SPEAKER_07 5:29

That's something.

SPEAKER_10 5:30

It feels as though he's kind of become the same guy as he would have uh if he did get burned alive.

SPEAKER_07 5:37

I mean beautiful. I don't think Darth Vader would hang out doing bong rips with that with Darkin.

SPEAKER_10 5:45

I mean, how else do you explain that breathing apparatus?

SPEAKER_07 5:48

That's true. That's true.

SPEAKER_05 5:50

He can't do bong rips, how dare you?

SPEAKER_07 5:54

How insensitive! He wouldn't be good. And have I have I had any other things from my possible dark passenger, or has uh that been quiet?

SPEAKER_01 6:04

That's been quiet.

SPEAKER_07 6:05

That's good. That's good. Just don't go near there.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

Yeah. But eventually uh Renala does does call you down. She's uh researched these planets, and when you when you arrive in the library, she like knocks over a stack of data pads, goes clattering over the floor. She kind of waves to you, shit's everywhere. She says, Hey, hi! Okay.

SPEAKER_07 6:28

What do you mean like there is shit everywhere? But just the way you said that, it's like she waves.

SPEAKER_05 6:35

She's trashed this library. Also not using the washroom.

SPEAKER_07 6:40

You know, sometimes you wave at someone and then you're shit everywhere.

SPEAKER_10 6:45

You guys can't relate?

SPEAKER_07 6:47

Pants down, ass spright. Stupid. Anyways.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

Sorry about the smell. I had some uh weak way cuisine last night and it's still with me. No, I just mean and she points to like a bunch of like takeout containers on like a on like a table.

SPEAKER_07 7:13

Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

I uh I forgot to put it uh into the fridge.

SPEAKER_07 7:17

Uh probably doesn't help that there's no fridge down here. Again, I feel like I've mentioned this. There are rooms with beds.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

Yeah, but there's so much stuff to go through. This is this is thousands of years of lore and captured artifacts. Like these all these artifacts belong to people and the Jedi have just been hoarding them.

SPEAKER_07 7:34

Hasn't Cole been helping ya? Can't you take a break like Cole sort some of this out?

SPEAKER_01 7:38

Cole's gonna put stuff in a place where I don't know where it is. I know it looks messy, but I have a system. I know where everything is. Okay, now where did I put that stuff?

SPEAKER_05 7:48

Uh teenage me.

SPEAKER_10 7:50

Hey, f fucking why do you have to get at me personally there?

SPEAKER_01 7:54

Alright. Uh so Cole's uh planets. Yeah. Uh Korriban, Kaon, Chiron, Keegan, and Kesh.

SPEAKER_07 8:04

Yeah. A bunch of K names.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Yeah, well, uh not all of them. Uh Chiron, that's actually a CH. Uh I'm I'm I'm guessing there is some kind of phonetic connection that he was just making in his brain. Uh, because if you lay them all out, it is it does kind of make a path. Not just those planets, there's more in between. Uh Korban, that's Sith Homeworld, as we know. If you know anything about the Sith, that's kinda the one place. Uh Kaon. Read through some of the reports. You guys have actually been there. You found a uh a droid or something?

SPEAKER_07 8:37

Oh, was that the the droid that we were like, yeah, you can help us out, and then they ripped its brain out.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 8:45

Uh unfortunately.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Uh see that's in the Tyon hegemony. Uh very old sector of space. Then we got Chiron. Chiron, that's in the Ashworlds. Now, one of your reports said that you went to the Ash Worlds. Not to Chiron, but um somebody called the Dark Woman. Anya Kiro.

SPEAKER_07 9:03

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

Killed a lady there, Jedi?

SPEAKER_07 9:07

Yeah, she died. Yes, we went there.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Again, the Ash Worlds, very old sector of space, radiation damaged a long, long time ago. Uh, Keegan, that's in the Caloron sector. I don't expect you would know that. But that last one, Kesh. That's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 9:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Well, from what I can tell, Kesh doesn't exist at all.

SPEAKER_10 9:27

Oh, oh. Do we uh like Never has or is assumed dead?

SPEAKER_01 9:33

It's not in any star charts from the Navigation Guild, it's not in any of the uh logs from the Jedi Archives. Who would hide a planet from the archives?

SPEAKER_07 9:42

Did did Cole know where it was supposed to be, or do you just know the name?

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Just the name, but because he has those other planets, we can kind of uh extrapolate where it should be.

SPEAKER_07 9:53

Oh, yeah, because he said they were all kind of like in a line, so around the like along the path.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 9:58

Have you read the Cole's notes version of it of this?

SPEAKER_01 10:01

I mean, yeah, it was just a list of planets. He's not a very good note-taker. Oh, that's unfortunate.

SPEAKER_10 10:07

I have heard he is very brief.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

I've seen his briefs. They are uh not much to write home about.

SPEAKER_07 10:16

Hey! Okay, so uh, you know, based on where it should be, where you think it'd we're heading, if we want to see what's going on with this cash place.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

Well, from what I can tell, Cash is eastern edge of the galaxy in the in wild space. It's kind of a uh out beyond hut space. It's uh you go past castle past Obadiah, and it's in sort of the same neighborhood.

SPEAKER_06 10:40

Oh no, we gotta go past Castle. It's probably fine.

SPEAKER_10 10:43

Uh I bet you if we just uh don't look while we are passing Kessel, I'm sure they won't bother us. What's wrong with Just look away? What's wrong with Kessel?

SPEAKER_01 10:52

You guys didn't Because you guys went to Sinkhole Station. You didn't uh you didn't tell me that anything went down bad with the pikes, or is that gonna be a problem?

SPEAKER_06 11:00

No, that's not that's not no, it's uh it's a personal thing. It's nothing that I think anyone else has to be concerned about.

SPEAKER_07 11:07

Just bad choices being made.

SPEAKER_10 11:09

And monf uh mon of me, we are filled with bad choices.

SPEAKER_01 11:14

Well, this cache it seems like it might be uh a couple sectors over if Wild Space even has sectors, but that's a problem, it's off the map. Don't have any star charts to get there. We know generally where it is, but uh beyond that it's a bit of a blank.

SPEAKER_10 11:31

Are are are we going to be the recon or is there any recon over there uh over there right now? Have we sent anybody to try to discover this planet?

SPEAKER_07 11:40

I don't know if there is. We have much of a recon team like just us in the Imperial Knights. Like it's not SIS anymore.

SPEAKER_06 11:46

That's fair.

SPEAKER_07 11:47

Or SBI.

SPEAKER_05 11:48

Were we not part of the exploration crew?

SPEAKER_07 11:53

I we're not in the service car anymore, Lyria. Don't call it that. Or sorry, you're saying that to like Chris R, like, you know, yeah, this is our job going out there and doing maybe maybe.

SPEAKER_05 12:02

Here, can't we just go to the approximate area and do some s activity scans?

SPEAKER_07 12:08

Yeah, that's about that's what we do. That's what we uh Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 12:11

We could go out uh on our own little enterprise and go where no one has gone before.

SPEAKER_07 12:17

Or at least, you know, where no one's been for some time.

SPEAKER_10 12:20

No one has gone before. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_05 12:23

Especially we were just exploring stuff that had already been uh discovered, so we could rediscover an ancient civilization.

SPEAKER_07 12:31

Hell yeah, doing the forces work.

SPEAKER_05 12:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 12:34

And bring them into Z Fold.

SPEAKER_06 12:37

Maybe. If there's anyone there, they might just be abandoned.

SPEAKER_10 12:40

If it is abandoned, we will use it as a base, maybe. I don't know. I d I don't really have any uh uh say in what the Empire does. I just work for Zem.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

Well, if there is something there, it's probably based on uh Cole's ancestors, and that Killick hive being having contact with the Sith, then uh there's probably at least a lot of artifacts there for you to dig up.

SPEAKER_06 13:03

Oh, we know how you love artifacts, Renala.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

Are you saying Zen might have something to do with Zekillick? Well, the uh whatever Sith came in contact with Cole's ancestors, whatever that Killick hive was, they uh obviously had been to this place or or knew of this place.

SPEAKER_07 13:18

Oh yeah, should Cole be coming with us? Maybe Cole should be coming with us since we're uh gonna be going into Killick stuff.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

Well, I don't know if there's gonna be Killick stuff there, because the Killicks uh were on Seraphore. They just came into contact with Sith.

SPEAKER_07 13:31

Oh yeah, but if there's like any uh ancient well, actually I guess if it's like a different hive or something.

SPEAKER_01 13:38

Like if you want to take him, be my guest, but uh I need to examine his briefs.

SPEAKER_07 13:42

Ranel, are you telling us to not take him because you're honey?

SPEAKER_01 13:45

He's got a big issue with briefs, it seems. I mean look around.

SPEAKER_05 13:49

I thought you just said his briefs were nothing to look at.

SPEAKER_01 13:51

Well yeah, because he did they're very tiny.

SPEAKER_07 13:54

Do you like a man with tiny briefs, Ranella?

SPEAKER_01 13:57

They're mesh.

SPEAKER_07 13:58

Ooh, mesh!

SPEAKER_01 13:59

But look, I mean, look around this place. Most of the men posted outside these doors are full armor and they're like, what, 13 years old? I'm not gonna look. I've done a lot of things.

SPEAKER_07 14:10

Right?

SPEAKER_01 14:11

But I'm not a cradle robber. I'm a grave robber.

SPEAKER_07 14:14

Uh I I don't know what to say to that.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

But if you feel if you guys feel you're confident, but if you don't, if you want to back up, I did. I know we were talking about these uh so they're force traditions. Uh I did do a little bit of uh looking into if you think it would help. I did do a little bit of looking into the Star Wardens. Uh did find one that maybe uh if you think you need some masturbation help. Sounds like you've got it covered, uh, but if you feel like you might need some backup, uh I did manage to dig one up. He's in uh lockup on Narshada. Apparently he got in a bar fight, pissed off some crime lord or something, someone's kid. He anyway, he's uh he's in jail, bail set at 100k, but um I mean the knights are good for that.

SPEAKER_07 15:01

That's true. I mean, what do you think, Illyria? Like, yeah, usually I ask trageda, but would you uh like to have an extra an extra set of brains on it?

SPEAKER_05 15:10

I can put aside my own ego. Since this is a uh fairly unexplored area of space as of late. Yeah, I mean I am if you want.

SPEAKER_07 15:20

We wouldn't think we'd get in touch with the Star Wardens anyway, so it probably wouldn't help her to uh just have someone, you know, in the fold. Sure. Yeah, we'll go find him. You said Na Shada?

SPEAKER_01 15:31

Yeah, uh picked up uh some security footage of the bar brawl, and she brings it up, and you see this uh this duro. Well, he's a he's a scrappy little duro guy getting in a fight, and she says, There, there. And he like kicks somebody, and the guy goes flying back, but he doesn't make contact. And he says, These Star Wardens, they don't like to kick. They don't like to advertise themselves, but uh this guy looks like he's got the juice.

SPEAKER_07 15:57

He's like corn, he has the juice. He's got the juice.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Argo Thrustmaster.

SPEAKER_04 16:04

Oh Argo Thrustmaster.

SPEAKER_10 16:08

He sounds like my kind of guy. Wait, do I do Zekar? Is that his uh Christian name?

SPEAKER_01 16:14

I mean, maybe it means uh something different in uh the Juro language, but Yeah, we'll go get uh Mr.

SPEAKER_07 16:20

Thrustmaster, Master Thrust.

SPEAKER_10 16:22

And let's see, let's see if he can thrust us into discovering what this uh undiscovered planet could be. Wait, are we uh wait, are we gonna meet God?

SPEAKER_07 16:33

Oh, I hope so.

SPEAKER_10 16:34

Like in Star Trek V The Undiscovered Planet?

SPEAKER_07 16:37

Yeah, God's gonna be asking us for a starship. Was that that name of that movie?

SPEAKER_10 16:41

I might be like what does God want the code?

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Undiscovered country. Uh and that that was the sixth one. Sixth one, right. The Final Frontier was number five.

SPEAKER_10 16:49

Final Frontier. Okay, that's where I'm wrong. Yes. That's still the one that I'm thinking of, but the wrong title. Anyways.

SPEAKER_07 16:55

Yeah, anyways, shall we go to Narshida to get uh I have to write down that name. I shouldn't there shouldn't there shouldn't be any chance of me forgetting it, but uh you say it was Argo Thrustmaster?

SPEAKER_10 17:06

Yeah. You know, like Argo fuck yourself.

SPEAKER_07 17:08

God, that looks even worse when you actually type it out.

SPEAKER_10 17:12

Thrustmaster.

SPEAKER_07 17:13

Looks absolutely hideous. Hideous collection of words. Anyways, shall we go to Narshida to get Mr. Thrustmaster?

SPEAKER_01 17:22

Do it. You can uh go to Narshidah. Are you going in your full uh Imperial Cause you've got your you've got your ship decked out with Imperial Weaponry, Imperial Sigils. Are you going in your full armor? Are you claiming him on behalf of the Empire?

SPEAKER_07 17:36

Yeah, I mean like, because if it's like we're gonna like put this on the Empire's tab, then like we probably should be going looking as official as possible. Unless we want to pay for him out of pocket and keep it on the DL.

SPEAKER_10 17:49

I mean, we do have money out of pocket. We could do that. We keep forgetting we're independently wealthy. Yeah, we're we're somehow we're the richest any of our characters have ever been. We should take advantage of that.

SPEAKER_07 18:01

Well, I don't I don't want to have to spend money if we don't have to. Should we not exert our influence? Yeah, bill it to the knights. Okay, alright.

SPEAKER_05 18:10

Also, if anybody has an issue with it, we can be like, go talk to the fucking emperor.

SPEAKER_07 18:14

Yeah. Yeah. Go go talk to Pal Petine.

SPEAKER_09 18:18

You may have heard of him.

SPEAKER_07 18:20

He's our best pal Petine. Or, you know, like uh God, what was Anakin's title now? Nightmaster. Go talk to Nightmaster Skywalker.

SPEAKER_10 18:29

I'm sorry, I would like to repeat our pal Putine.

SPEAKER_07 18:34

Yeah. Our buddy Sheev.

SPEAKER_10 18:44

I think we found out our my next season, my next uh campaign's character name, Al Poutine. No boy Poutine.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

You you're the guy who played uh Sheeve in a biopic about his life.

SPEAKER_07 18:57

Oh, that'd be good. Anyways, yeah, let's go to Narsheda. And let's go full regalia, I think.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

So, uh Narsheda is in Hut Space. I don't think you would need necessarily an Astrogation roll to get to Narshida. It's a fairly as much as like Hutspace is a place where criminals go, it's on the maps. But if you uh do want to, because what do you guys know about Narshida?

SPEAKER_07 19:24

Criminal scum. And that's crime zone.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

Yeah, so I mean that's I feel like you guys would you would know that. Uh how do criminals usually feel about cops?

SPEAKER_00 19:35

Hmm. Badly.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

So if you want to do an Astrogation roll, that may allow you to uh approach in your desired way. If you wanna give me a two purple.

SPEAKER_05 19:45

Astrogation?

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 19:46

Three success, one threat.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

Okay, so you can get there, but uh you did get a threat. So unfortunately, you got three sex success, one threat.

SPEAKER_07 19:59

Are they gonna try to uh are are they gonna like come on the radios as soon as we're on approach and it's like, oh yeah, no, it's a ten thousand dollar docking fee. Like they're trying to extort us because we're cops.

SPEAKER_05 20:09

Token my deas.

SPEAKER_07 20:12

I mean, I feel like that's probably too much for one threat.

SPEAKER_10 20:15

It's not ten thousand dollars, it's five thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Yeah, because it'll it'll take you a little while to get there with that threat, you'll be a little bit delayed. With those three success, you can kind of choose how you approach, though. You'll be a little bit delayed, so something uh if if anything was gonna happen to this guy, may uh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 20:34

Look, he's just in the drunk tank.

SPEAKER_05 20:35

Death sentence him for a bar fight.

SPEAKER_07 20:38

He's in the drunk tank. What's gonna happen to him? Come on.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

So, uh, how do you want to approach?

SPEAKER_07 20:46

What do you think, Illyria?

SPEAKER_05 20:47

Uh, I want to approach uh where their cops go. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 20:51

We're on official business.

SPEAKER_05 20:53

Yeah. The official docks, not the criminal docks.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

Does Nar Shada have cops, or is it just like the huts? I mean, it's self-governing. It's got like corrupt local police. There are probably uh some corrupt small imperial outposts, but you can uh a little bit delayed in getting there, approach Narsheda following where its cops go, where the kind of the crime lords send their sort of local police following their paths until you reach a little Narshedah is one of those cities covered in city. So in this tower, there is a uh little kind of built into it, a little police station with a uh docking platform that you can set down on. It doesn't seem to be Imperial affiliated, it doesn't appear to be HUT affiliated, uh, but it probably is. And you can just set yourselves down, you can insist upon yourselves, and these local Narshidah cops come running out and They're about to yell at you until they see what flags you're flying and what armor you're wearing, and then they kinda just kind of straighten up and they say, Oh, uh hail, uh, I don't know, Palpatine or whatever. How's it how's it hanging?

SPEAKER_07 22:17

Uh oh Chris, yeah, the tack uh.

SPEAKER_01 22:19

You should play uh How's it hanging?

SPEAKER_07 22:21

What do you mean it?

SPEAKER_01 22:24

How are they hanging? Uh sorry, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 22:27

Lightsabers are hanging s straight and out.

SPEAKER_10 22:32

What's the guy what's the name uh guy uh name of the guy again that we're looking for? Argo Thrustmaster. Uh could I how can I fucking forget? Uh hello. Uh we are here on uh personal and business matters. Uh we were wondering if you might know of one Thrustmaster.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

Thrustmaster, Thrustmaster.

SPEAKER_10 22:52

Um Argo fuck Thrust. I almost said Argofuck yourself.

SPEAKER_07 22:59

Maybe that's what Thrust. Oh man, what if it's an alias and it's like that's just what it that's what uh he was going for, but that's what it translates to from his native language.

SPEAKER_10 23:09

Argo we're looking for our Argo th uh thrustmaster. I was wondering if you uh might know of somebody who knows him or know somebody who knows somebody. Uh no.

SPEAKER_07 23:23

Is he lying? Perception. Perception.

SPEAKER_10 23:26

No.

SPEAKER_07 23:27

No.

SPEAKER_10 23:28

No.

SPEAKER_07 23:29

Let me perceive this clown. This clown. This clown with his clown pants. What kind of perception? Yeah, what's it gonna be easier to perceive this clown?

SPEAKER_01 23:38

So this would be against his deception. Uh this would be against two purple.

SPEAKER_07 23:42

Too purple, you clown.

SPEAKER_09 23:45

He's not that great at deception, apparently.

SPEAKER_07 23:47

Oh wow. One failure, three advantage. I got three yellow and a blue to perception.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

He seems dodgy. You can't tell, like, that may just be the way he is. Uh he does have an air of uh corruption about him, but you can't tell whether or not he's being corrupt in this particular instance.

SPEAKER_09 24:06

Starzant got two success, three threat.

SPEAKER_10 24:09

I got the other way around, three success and two threat.

SPEAKER_09 24:12

Ooh.

SPEAKER_05 24:13

Three failure, two advantage.

SPEAKER_01 24:15

Hell yeah, dog. Yeah, so those of you who failed with advantage. You can you can tell that this guy seems generally uh scummy and corrupt, uh, susceptible to uh bribery and other methods of getting him to do what you want. Those of you who got success with threat, um, you can tell that he's lying and like you get the feeling where it's like he might also be stalling a little bit.

SPEAKER_07 24:40

Can I ignite my lightsaber and be like, you want to answer that question again?

SPEAKER_01 24:44

Uh uh, sorry, he just killed himself. What? Wesie? Yeah, just now, uh nowhere. He uh just killed himself.

SPEAKER_10 24:52

We're on a road to nowhere. Show us where nowhere is, and we will investigate. I I I flash out I flash out my uh my badge, whatever badge I have, and I was like, lockdown's the entire area. This place is now on uh investigation while we try and figure out the murder.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Uh it's not it's not a murder, it's a suicide. He killed himself in prison.

SPEAKER_10 25:12

Uh that isn't for us to to discover. Now please show us the body.

SPEAKER_07 25:16

Show us where he is, or else it's gonna be another suicide. Alright, alright.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

I just gotta uh head back in, find the right uh card key here. I got a yellow one. A green one.

SPEAKER_10 25:27

Can we can we like surround him so he doesn't run away? A red one.

SPEAKER_07 25:31

Or just can we just go ahead back uh like is it can we tell where uh this guy might be held? Like, is it clear where there's like a holding cell or something?

SPEAKER_01 25:41

Well he's like getting his key cards to try and get back in the door from the landing pad. Yeah, but he's like actively I'm just gonna grab him, search his pockets for him. You can you can grab him, he drops his keys. Hey! Hey, I was just I'm trying to help. I'm trying to be helpful.

SPEAKER_05 25:56

Time is of the essence if I am to do an autopsy.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

Uh uh Okay, okay, okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, can I pick up can I pick up my keys?

SPEAKER_10 26:03

Somebody else pick up his keys. I will I will pick up his keys. You can pick up his keys and just go. You can just mash it against the door open. Is that one? No? Is that one? No.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

He'll figure this out for us.

SPEAKER_10 26:20

That one? Oh, I already pointed at that one.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

So eventually you can find the right key. It doesn't auto-select from your inventory, but you can head in, and there's the sounds of a scuffle coming from one of the holding cells.

SPEAKER_07 26:32

Uh charge towards it! They're trying to suicide them!

SPEAKER_01 26:35

Yeah, you can charge towards it, and you can you can see a police officer getting like telekinetically blasted out of the cell, and then another one runs in with like a stun baton.

SPEAKER_05 26:48

Wow! What's happening here? This is the most active suicide I've ever seen. Stand back!

SPEAKER_01 26:53

He's dangerous, he's killing himself.

SPEAKER_07 26:57

What what is he doing? Is he just like trying to get these officers away from him who are trying to murder him?

SPEAKER_01 27:02

Yeah, he's he's covered, but he's he's still got the force. Uh his arms and his legs are bound, but he's he can still kind of like do telekinetic headbutts.

SPEAKER_07 27:10

He's in the custody Right, we're taking him into our custody, Imperial Knights.

SPEAKER_10 27:15

Give me a coercion.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Coercion or leadership?

SPEAKER_07 27:24

Would I would I be able to add anything since I have my lightsaber out and ignited?

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Pretty good intimidation. Yeah, you guys, f for being Imperial Knights, you can add a blue.

SPEAKER_07 27:36

Okay. Oh yeah, I have three I have three green and a blue to coercion. So three green, two blue. And sorry, what do you say the difficulty would be?

SPEAKER_01 27:44

Uh two purple.

SPEAKER_07 27:45

One success, three advantage.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

They kind of step back and say, okay, okay. We didn't we didn't realize that uh went this high up. Alright, uh, feel free to take the corpse, I guess.

SPEAKER_10 27:57

He is but he is not he is not a corpse. Not on my watch.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

Not yet, but he's killing himself. And I'm sure that the autopsy and they wink at you will be very inconclusive.

SPEAKER_04 28:10

Shadow.

SPEAKER_10 28:11

Well I did do wink at me. We uh we uh take him uh to our vehicle cuff to like uh show the uh uh show what's going on, and then as soon as we get into our our vehicle or whatever, we uncuff him and let him know what's up. Uh hey, you wouldn't uh you wouldn't know how to get to the unknown planet over by the uh uh uh by the castle area, would you?

SPEAKER_03 28:37

Uh hey, uh three things. Number one, thanks. Number two, who the hell's Arya? Uh number three, is she single? Who? Which one are you pointing at? Arya?

SPEAKER_01 28:49

He points to Elyria. Uh uh.

SPEAKER_05 28:52

I'm uh married to my job.

SPEAKER_07 28:54

Yeah, she's Volsa. Yeah, but you you're Dorose, he's also blue.

SPEAKER_10 29:00

You could be married to your job, but you can also see a side piece on the weekends. It's okay.

SPEAKER_07 29:05

Yeah, you've seen Tom Foolery in these days, Elyria.

SPEAKER_05 29:08

That is none of your business.

SPEAKER_07 29:10

Perception.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

Fantastic. Is this a deception or a cool?

SPEAKER_05 29:17

False L till I die.

SPEAKER_07 29:19

False L till I die. That does Well maybe not till I die, but uh, so is it a stars in her perception?

SPEAKER_05 29:28

Uh it's none of your business.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

Perception. That'll be against her cool, I think.

SPEAKER_07 29:34

What's your cool?

SPEAKER_05 29:35

Uh just one yellow, one green.

SPEAKER_07 29:37

So one red, one purple. One success, one advantage. You flustered you flustered hoe.

SPEAKER_05 29:44

I am I have not been seeing anyone.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Yeah, so it is it is literally just none of your business.

SPEAKER_07 29:50

That's fair. I accept that. But yeah, no, she's saying goal, hi, uh, we're the Imperial Knights. You heard of us?

SPEAKER_03 29:57

Uh yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

Uh so uh to what do I owe the uh honor? And he kind of reaches out to take Illyria's hand in the way where it's like he's gonna try and kiss it.

SPEAKER_10 30:08

Hell yeah. Oh yeah. Hell yeah, don't you know? Is he handsome?

SPEAKER_05 30:11

He does the thing where he grabs my hand and I just kind of slip it out.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Is he handsome for a Doros? I mean he's got the same rubber mask face as the rest of them.

SPEAKER_05 30:19

I slip my hand out right as he's about to kiss it and he ha kisses his own hand.

SPEAKER_01 30:24

You wanna see what I can do with this hand? And he starts like making out with his own hand.

SPEAKER_10 30:31

Okay. Can we put the pin on Zet for now?

SPEAKER_07 30:34

Just for now. I was I was team I was team thrustmaster until you did that.

SPEAKER_05 30:40

Um I'm telling you, they're all the same.

SPEAKER_07 30:43

Thrustmaster.

SPEAKER_05 30:44

Not Duros, not Duros, I mean men, I mean men. I'm not racist. I'm sexist.

SPEAKER_07 30:50

Of course, of course. It's something different and okayer.

SPEAKER_10 30:53

Miss Andry, Miss Andry.

SPEAKER_07 30:55

Yeah, Miss Andre is fine by us. Yeah, Miss Okay, gosh darn, what were what were you even saying? Um, but uh but yeah, no, uh yeah you're a Starwarden, right?

SPEAKER_03 31:06

Oh, I'm just uh navigator on a spice freighter.

SPEAKER_05 31:10

Uh why are you saying it like that? I shouldn't notice. My perception's pretty low. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 31:15

That's a shame because if you were a Star Warden, then we would have uh great use for you in the Imperial Knights, and you know, gosh, we would want to have you be free and not in this prison to be suicided.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

Well, I know what the Jedi do to uh different types of people out there. They they ain't a big fan. They're all about uh theocratic unity or whatever. So if I were a Star Warden, I uh, you know, obviously I I would tell ya, uh, cause I cause I don't want to be killed by a Jedi.

SPEAKER_07 31:48

Oh, we ain't the Jedi. No, no, we're specifically looking for you because we're trying to like uh bring out the force traditions into the Imperial Knights, you know, like everyone share your different ideologies and your different ways of looking at the force so we can all kind of learn and grow together.

SPEAKER_05 32:03

Yeah, we're not gatekeepers.

SPEAKER_07 32:04

Yeah, we're not gatekeepers. That's why we're looking for you. Also, we could use your help opening. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 32:11

That is you know that is not what I meant.

SPEAKER_07 32:13

Yeah, that's not what anyone has ever meant by that. Um, but like look, are you uh you're the guy we'll uh we're after or not?

SPEAKER_03 32:20

I'll tell you this much. Uh if you need a navigator, I can uh be available for money.

SPEAKER_06 32:28

How much money?

SPEAKER_03 32:30

Ooh, well, I mean, you guys got nice armor. This is a nice ship. You busted me out of prison, so you must need me pretty badly. I'm gonna say 50,000.

SPEAKER_07 32:40

50,000? Oh yeah, by the way, why were they trying to suicide ya? Explain that first.

SPEAKER_03 32:46

Well, the thing about crime lords is they don't like it when you make a pass at their wife. And if you make enough passes at enough guys' wives, they get mad at ya. And then they fight ya in a bar, and then you gotta fight their kid, and then you kick the wrong kid and you break his neck, and you know, it is what it is.

SPEAKER_10 33:11

Does that make sense, honestly?

SPEAKER_07 33:13

Honestly, I'm like, we've we've killed kids before. Oh, you killed kids? Holy shit. We we we don't like to. Yeah, young ones too.

SPEAKER_05 33:21

We didn't we we we we didn't like yeah, like padawants, baby.

SPEAKER_07 33:27

Look, they're uh they started it. Evil?

SPEAKER_10 33:31

You guys evil? In my point in my point of view, Z Gentil are evil.

SPEAKER_07 33:35

Yeah, I don't I I don't think it's inherently evil to defend oneself against uh No no Z kids.

SPEAKER_05 33:41

True, uh we forgot to say the kids were trying to kill us first. Yeah, the kids started it.

SPEAKER_07 33:45

Bad kids. We tried to give the kids a way out, and we only wanted to kill the master, but then they started shit.

SPEAKER_05 33:52

Yeah, they got possessed by evil ghosts and started to attack us.

SPEAKER_10 33:56

They decided that their way out was death.

SPEAKER_07 33:59

So really those kids got themselves killed.

SPEAKER_10 34:02

Yes, this was not our fault whatsoever.

SPEAKER_07 34:04

We've never done anything wrong in our lives. I know that and I love you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

So why don't you give me a charm?

SPEAKER_07 34:11

Can Chris take the lead on that?

SPEAKER_01 34:13

Uh sure. That'll be a uh I mean, you guys are uh he doesn't seem to like Jedi. He seems to think you are kinda Jedi, so it could be a destiny point here. We'll call this against a red and a purple.

SPEAKER_05 34:26

Can we get a blue for the child killing?

SPEAKER_01 34:28

Yeah, he likes Illyria so much. If if Illyria tries to charm him, she can add a blue, but I don't think uh to my one to my one green. Maybe not.

SPEAKER_09 34:37

A blue for her skin color.

SPEAKER_10 34:40

Don't worry, I got this. Um uh one success and four advantage.

SPEAKER_07 34:45

Hell yeah, Chris has it. Chris, are you like a chameleon? Can you turn yourself blue so this guy wants to kiss you instead? I mean, he can change his skin color. You can?

SPEAKER_05 34:56

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 34:57

Falling uh Oh my god, do blue face, Chris.

SPEAKER_09 35:02

Falling in my skin?

SPEAKER_05 35:03

It's okay. I said it was okay.

SPEAKER_07 35:06

You get the blue skin pass. Illyria gave you permission. I don't think that's as that works. No, look, I can totally do it. My blue friend is cool with it. My blue friend says that I can.

SPEAKER_01 35:18

I got a blue pass.

SPEAKER_05 35:19

I got lots of blue friends.

SPEAKER_07 35:21

Some of my blue best friends are blue.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

Well, the thing is their their uh their skin becomes like orange or red when uh they're in heat, I guess, when they're trying to exude certain pheromones. So I don't know if you can do blue face.

SPEAKER_07 35:35

Oh my god, Chris, do you have pawn far? Is that a thing? What is pawn far again? I completely forgot.

SPEAKER_01 35:41

Uh I I don't think they do.

SPEAKER_07 35:42

No, that's uh that's uh the that's Spox thing in Star Trek. Right!

SPEAKER_10 35:47

I knew that sounded familiar. No, I don't have pawn far, I don't think.

SPEAKER_09 35:51

Can you seduce this man?

SPEAKER_07 35:52

Would you seduce this man?

SPEAKER_09 35:55

Will you seduce this man?

SPEAKER_07 35:57

Then will you seduce this man?

SPEAKER_10 36:00

When will you seduce this man?

SPEAKER_07 36:02

I mean, although to be fair, he does seem pretty fixated on people's wives, so I don't know if uh Chris is quite his type. But also Chris is everyone's type. Chris is everyone's type.

SPEAKER_05 36:12

And he says, Was he asking if I was single so that he wouldn't have to kick any more children?

SPEAKER_07 36:16

I just don't want to kick any more channels.

SPEAKER_05 36:17

I assume they were large adult children and not like actual children trying to fight him.

SPEAKER_07 36:21

Yeah, probably. Yeah, it was actual children in the bar swarming him. But no, he's charmed.

SPEAKER_03 36:31

Well, you know, uh, usually I uh uh don't go in for the whole uh organized religion thing, but uh you got more like that one in the back.

SPEAKER_01 36:40

Uh maybe maybe I can be amenable to some uh some work. Maybe joining you guys Imperial Knights, you guys are what, you took over the Jedi or you replaced them or I heard they all died. Heard they uh tried to take over the Republic or something.

SPEAKER_07 36:56

Yeah, they're real evil, man.

SPEAKER_10 36:58

Yeah, we're uh we're making sure that we eradicate them so they don't come back.

SPEAKER_03 37:03

Well that's good. That's uh I'm gonna let you in on a secret. I am a Star Warden.

SPEAKER_07 37:07

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 37:10

And usually usually I just go hunting pirates, but if you guys are uh on the side of law and order, then you know what? You're alright with me.

SPEAKER_07 37:18

Bum bum. Yeah. And you know, like we were wanting to to get the Star Wardens in And I got a thin blue line of my own. Okay. Um Wait, what does that mean?

SPEAKER_10 37:30

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_07 37:32

Is that a euphemism? You call are you are you calling yourself skinny penis?

SPEAKER_10 37:40

Is that a drug reference?

SPEAKER_05 37:42

Your boy, Fin Dick.

SPEAKER_07 37:47

Hey, it's your boy, Slender Fad. Uh Okay, we're just gonna cruise right by that, I think. But yeah, you know, like if you want to see it.

SPEAKER_10 38:00

Chris comes in. I would like uh I I am now curious does that to mention it, but it's a time.

SPEAKER_05 38:07

Chris is like, I've gonna see the the pee-pee.

SPEAKER_10 38:10

I want to see the La Pee-Pee.

SPEAKER_07 38:15

What's that French for? La P. La PP. La pee pee.

SPEAKER_05 38:19

Are those those things people hang on bags?

SPEAKER_07 38:24

So close. That is a laboo-boo.

SPEAKER_03 38:29

Maybe we can uh celebrate once uh once his job is done. What exactly is it that you need me to do that you busted me out of jail so so badly for?

SPEAKER_05 38:37

Yeah, we're going to Cash.

SPEAKER_07 38:39

Yeah, we're trying to find planet Cash, but it's uh not on any any maps. We have an idea of where it should be.

SPEAKER_10 38:47

Well, I do.

SPEAKER_01 39:01

Alright. Uh you got uh can you show me on a map where it's supposed to be?

SPEAKER_07 39:05

And we uh show them on the map where it's supposed to be.

SPEAKER_01 39:07

So you can bring up a map of where Renala thought it would be generally. And you Ah, yeah, well there's your problem. What is our problem? Well that whole area of space has uh some real nasty uh magnetic distortion. Makes navigating in that area real real hazard. No wonder nobody's uh ever heard of any planets in there. Nobody's nobody's gone there.

SPEAKER_10 39:29

So it's not so just making sure, when you say that you don't think kesh exists, that means you that uh you're talking from experience of like your time of being a Star Warden, is that correct? Of all the planets that you've navigated to. Is that s is that's what I'm Yeah, I've never seen Kesh on any map.

SPEAKER_01 39:48

Uh that area is space, if that's where it is.

SPEAKER_10 39:51

Does the word Kesh sound familiar to you in any way?

SPEAKER_01 39:54

Uh Kush sounds familiar. You got any of that?

SPEAKER_10 39:57

Uh uh I'll I'll I'll let you into my stash, but first, again, we've got some important business to get into. I like this guy.

SPEAKER_06 40:06

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:07

But uh who's your who's your navigator? We should probably uh figure out a pretty tight plan here to to get to this planet before. I mean it's gonna take some work. We'll need to be pretty careful charting a path. We'll need to compensate for the magnetic interference.

SPEAKER_07 40:21

Oh, you're gonna love this part. I'll kind of push Elyria forward. There's your navigator.

SPEAKER_03 40:27

And she's a navigator too.

SPEAKER_05 40:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 40:30

Is that uh all you blue ladies uh know the stars?

SPEAKER_05 40:35

Uh wow.

SPEAKER_07 40:37

Um Is the most important thing that she's blue? Are you just weird about that?

SPEAKER_03 40:41

No, it's just uh the uh the warden who taught me a thing or two, a thing or two, uh, was the same kind of creature as this uh beautiful little strumpet.

SPEAKER_07 40:50

Okay, let's maybe not call her a creature.

SPEAKER_03 40:53

Um and I was uh hot for teacher if you get my drift.

unknown 40:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 40:57

Oh, he thought it's bad.

SPEAKER_05 40:59

Let's just uh get to work.

SPEAKER_03 41:01

Get down to dirty business. Okay, watch these fingers fly.

SPEAKER_01 41:05

Oh we I step back a step and he gets up to the floor. And he's like, he keeps like like pinching and like tweaking the knobs and like like running his fingers along the keys, and he's he's constantly like broken them sensually. He keeps looking back at you like, huh? Huh? You like it? You like this?

SPEAKER_05 41:26

I am I'm grimacing. I do not like this.

SPEAKER_07 41:30

Secondhand cringe.

SPEAKER_05 41:31

He's defiling my my computer.

SPEAKER_07 41:34

My precious baby.

SPEAKER_01 41:35

What one time he even like sticks his tongue out and he like s uses his tongue to press a couple of keys.

SPEAKER_07 41:41

No! Oh man, I'm the pilot. I have to use these controls sometimes too. Don't do that. Some somehow it makes it faster.

SPEAKER_05 41:50

It's okay, I have some sanitary wipes somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

This one toggle switch, he just flicks it back and forth like five times with his tongue.

SPEAKER_07 41:57

Does nothing. He's just molecular.

SPEAKER_05 41:59

Are you doing controls? Are you do- have you started? Is it in yet?

SPEAKER_01 42:07

As you say that, he's got like the control stick like halfway into his mouth.

SPEAKER_07 42:13

I don't think that's the sort of skills that you're gonna need from.

SPEAKER_01 42:17

Like, there's definitely a reason this guy was in jail. No.

SPEAKER_05 42:21

I probably should have just done this like we should have taken our our chances with me doing it.

SPEAKER_09 42:27

Crimes of the future.

SPEAKER_04 42:28

Future crimes.

SPEAKER_03 42:30

Well, I've uh compensated for the magnetic interference if we're thinking this planet of yours is somewhere in there. What do you think the odds are it's right in the middle? You think it's maybe it's causing it? I mean maybe.

SPEAKER_10 42:41

If you wanna Do you s uh the magnetic interference would be enough to hide a planet, maybe?

SPEAKER_03 42:48

Well, it would keep anybody from getting there. But uh if you wanna check my work, double check it, give it a good close, long, stiff look, I'll uh just sit back here and uh watch you watching my work.

SPEAKER_07 43:00

Oh god, give it a wipe first, give the whole thing a wipe.

SPEAKER_10 43:04

No, no, no, don't touch anything. Maybe he just put everything to where it needs to be uh needs to be.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

So uh I mean he's a Star Warden, he's pretty good at this. Uh so to double check his work and to plot in the course, so he's got how many ranks in astrogation do you have?

SPEAKER_05 43:22

Uh one.

SPEAKER_01 43:23

Okay, so he's got three, so you can use his three ranks in astrogation on your intellect for the role. It is in wild space, uh, so that is gonna start as a three purple, it's off the maps, it's got this magnetic interference. I'm gonna give you a destiny point, so there'll be a red, two purple, and a black astrogation.

SPEAKER_05 43:44

So I use his ranks so I get three yellow and a green?

SPEAKER_01 43:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 43:48

One success, three advantage.

SPEAKER_01 43:50

So you can plot a course there that you are fairly confident in. And when you arrive, As you drop out of hyperspace, you can see that as he suggested, the planet was right in the middle of the magnetic interference, and it does start affecting your ship as soon as you approach. But you got those.

SPEAKER_07 44:14

Is that gonna make it challenging for me to fly us in?

SPEAKER_01 44:16

Uh well, she got those advantages. So you can because you kind of were prepared for this, because she plotted a good course, had all this information, all this data collected ahead of time, you can uh add two blues on your piloting role.

SPEAKER_07 44:30

Okay, what's that gonna be for a roll?

SPEAKER_01 44:32

So this is gonna be it's gonna be hard. That'll be a three purple, the magnetic interference is affecting you, so that will add one more black.

SPEAKER_07 44:40

So three purple and a black.

SPEAKER_01 44:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 44:43

Two success.

SPEAKER_01 44:44

So you can keep the ship steady as you enter the planet's atmosphere. Uh it is really like you you're noticing as you're flying that even though you can keep the ship steady, its systems are going a little wacky. Specifically, the uh repulsors aren't really working.

SPEAKER_07 45:05

Is that gonna Are we are we gonna have a very rough landing?

SPEAKER_01 45:08

You probably will. You don't have any repulsors, so you won't be able to do a uh a quiet set down.

SPEAKER_07 45:14

Like as we're kind of cruising in, does it look like there's any uh does it look like this is an occupied planet or is it just like wilderness?

SPEAKER_01 45:23

So you approached from the day side, so it made it hard. You couldn't see really see any lights or anything, but as you kind of scooch down into the atmosphere, you can see your sensors are starting to pick up. Um a lot of life readings and a lot of electrical readings. There are some satellites in orbit, but the level of technology you're picking up is uh nowhere near advanced as anything that you're used to.

SPEAKER_07 45:52

Okay. So, ooh, I wonder if we're gonna land and it's like gonna be an Earth-type place.

SPEAKER_01 45:58

Well, as you're one of the things you are picking up on your sensors is some incoming, well, not ships, uh, but jets.

SPEAKER_07 46:08

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_01 46:09

Uh, f from what you can see on your on your scopes, they are using primitive uh fuel thrusters. They don't seem to have any repulsor lifts. They're they're they seem to be like roughly equivalent to like an F-22. Um they are approaching you. There's two of them, and they are approaching you at high speed.

SPEAKER_07 46:30

Um, is there any way because like our ship wouldn't have any like stealth fields or anything, right?

SPEAKER_01 46:37

Uh, no.

SPEAKER_07 46:38

Is there any way that I could kind of do evasive maneuvers and see if I can maybe like disappear into like some trees or something and just like go out of sight? If we had like swoop down into a forested area?

SPEAKER_01 46:51

Yeah, if you want to try and dip down into a forest.

SPEAKER_07 46:54

Sure. Just uh try it try to escape without notice. What would that be?

SPEAKER_01 47:00

Uh so this would be piloting against you're trying to escape their notice.

SPEAKER_07 47:05

Yeah, I just don't want us to get shot if it's like this is a pre-space travel civilization. Probably don't want to interfere with them too much.

SPEAKER_01 47:13

Like they've got some satellites, uh, so they've they can launch stuff into space, but they're not interstellar.

SPEAKER_07 47:19

Yeah, I I don't know. I don't trust uh human-level technology with aliens, you know?

SPEAKER_01 47:24

Okay, so this would probably be against uh their perception. You are in an unknown ship. Uh it is very unique. It is you your ship relies on repulsors to maneuver. Like a lot of a lot of ships aren't really designed for atmospheric flight, so you're gonna have to be fighting against that as your repulsors kind of sputter out.

SPEAKER_07 47:45

Is okay, could is there anyone who could maybe try to get the repulsors back on while I'm flying? I hate to I I I shudder to suggest Chris. I don't know what your intellect is like, but I know Elyria's on the astrogation and I'm doing the piloting.

SPEAKER_10 47:59

I mean, I can I can give it like um it's at two. I don't know how Starzan is.

SPEAKER_01 48:06

Yeah, Starzan could add a blue. I'll add a blue. Oh really? Oh, like for unskilled assistance.

SPEAKER_07 48:11

Okay, I thought for a second there was like something that Starzan was like, oh yeah, you get an automatic blue for mechanics. It's just like, why?

SPEAKER_10 48:20

Um Starzan is good at things. So yeah, uh what what would I be rolling?

SPEAKER_01 48:26

So this would be a two purple mechanics to try and keep the repulsors active long enough to set the ship down.

SPEAKER_10 48:33

Two purple and a blue. One success and two advantage.

SPEAKER_07 48:38

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_01 48:39

Okay. So uh then you can probably add a blue to Kala's roll. You can make sure the difficulty stays kinda low. Uh, so this is gonna be a two purple and a black then.

SPEAKER_07 48:53

Ooh, two success, one threat.

SPEAKER_01 48:56

So you can escape the notice of these ships, but your vessel comes down kinda hard in the forest. Mostly it's like you're you're you can take advantage of the fact that they're still pretty far away, and that you can just sort of duck down before they get into visual range. Uh, so even though you do scrape through a lot of trees, it is a bit of a crash landing. Uh, you can see the ship sort of flying, zooming overhead after you come down. There is enough tree cover that your ship isn't immediately visible or noticeable.

SPEAKER_07 49:32

So that's good. So, like let's I I feel like maybe we should minimize our time on this planet. Yeah, I just I don't want us to get Rosweld, not that I know what that means, but I don't want to be dragged to a uh facility.

SPEAKER_10 49:45

Oh, Rosweld where uh the babes hang out, you know.

SPEAKER_07 49:48

Yeah. From what Roswell where the babes hang out.

SPEAKER_01 49:53

Argo's looking real uh real nervous at this point. Guys like him tend to end up on operating tables.

SPEAKER_07 50:01

Oh, that's true. Argo really can't get Roswell. Like some of I mean, Starzend will be fine. I could probably pass.

SPEAKER_01 50:10

As what?

SPEAKER_07 50:11

Nothing. Nothing in particular. Never you mind! I don't want to get Roswell'.

SPEAKER_01 50:18

What do you think? This is this is Cash's actually Earth?

SPEAKER_07 50:21

Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. It feels very earth-coded to me at least.

SPEAKER_10 50:26

We uh we we fly down, we uh get a baseball hitting our uh uh window before our goose hits our engines.

SPEAKER_07 50:34

Uh oh.

SPEAKER_01 50:35

Yeah, you'll be lucky if you last for three seasons on this planet. Like Lex to Dark Side? Like Roswell? Like Roswell. You're gonna run into Catherine Heigel and Colin Hanks. Colin Hanks isn't that ship?

SPEAKER_07 50:47

Okay, so exiting the ship, are we like because I I set us down under tree cover. How far are we from civilization?

SPEAKER_01 50:55

Uh what would be the most beneficial to you? Would you wanna be kind of remote so you can fix the ship?

SPEAKER_07 51:01

I don't know, what do you guys think? Somewhere secretive, yeah. Yeah, maybe maybe remote so we can fix the ship, and maybe we if like if these people use radio waves, we could maybe try to like check in with their communications and see like how dangerous they would be to us.

SPEAKER_01 51:18

Um, so you rolled a uh threat on your piloting, so you're pretty close. Damn. You would have kind of crashed in like as you came down, you would have noticed like a big coastal city that was kind of nestled in with some sort of mountains surrounding it, and you kind of crashed into the forest in the mountains above the city.

SPEAKER_07 51:41

If we get into this and it turns out that you've that this is Earth and we have crashed near Vancouver, I'm gonna come out there and slap you.

SPEAKER_01 51:50

When do they ever make sci-fi shows near Vancouver?

SPEAKER_07 51:53

They've never done that, and they never will. Okay, what do we what do we think? Do we want to try to get the ship fixed before we go anywhere and just hope that we don't get found out?

SPEAKER_10 52:02

I mean, can we do it stealthily enough?

SPEAKER_07 52:05

Maybe.

SPEAKER_10 52:06

Let's do it then. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_05 52:07

I have four ranks in mechanics.

SPEAKER_01 52:10

So, if you want to fix the ship, uh it depends on what you mean by fix.

SPEAKER_07 52:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 52:18

Because your ship is not super aerodynamic. Um, if you're looking for like escaping, like reaching escape velocity, your thrusters might be able to get you out. You'll probably like you'll just have to rely on the big engines at the back. So you can't, no, no VTAL stuff unless you can get the uh repulsors working.

SPEAKER_07 52:43

Okay. So we're going old school rocket takeoff.

SPEAKER_01 52:47

So what is your plan?

SPEAKER_07 52:49

I don't know. Is there a way to kind of tap into the communications of this planet just to see, like, are they still looking for us? If there are like military radio frequencies happening? Can we look out the window to see if it's there?

SPEAKER_01 53:03

Well, outside the window you're seeing a lot of forest where you crashed. But if you go inside and if you turn on, uh try and scan various frequencies, uh, you can pick up a number of radio frequencies.

SPEAKER_10 53:18

Are they all like uh if you tune into those frequencies, are they all like na natural like gobbledygook kind of thing?

SPEAKER_07 53:26

Or just like regular ass FM radios?

SPEAKER_01 53:29

It's mostly regular ass FM radio.

SPEAKER_10 53:32

Oh, is it playing is it playing uh uh the new Finger 11 soundtrack?

SPEAKER_01 53:37

No, it's playing it's playing uh hits that are alien to you, but they are in basic.

SPEAKER_07 53:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 53:45

Ah, so he's playing Bjork.

SPEAKER_07 53:47

Yeah, because we know that like uh because we know that the Sith were here at some point, so it's like, well, if they kind of influence the civilization. Cause I do I I have the seek power.

SPEAKER_01 54:00

Yeah, because if you if you want to listen to the music, it might give you a sense of sort of what sort of society this is.

SPEAKER_07 54:08

Sure, let's get a vibe. Let's see if let's read the vibe check from their music.

SPEAKER_01 54:13

This would probably be a either perception, maybe like a knowledge lore to to understand how historically societies have interacted with their music.

SPEAKER_07 54:23

I'll do perception.

SPEAKER_01 54:25

Okay, it'll be a two-purple perception.

SPEAKER_07 54:27

Uh I got one success, three advantage. I don't know if anyone else wants to roll. And that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_10 54:32

If you succeeded, you're fine. Yeah, yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_01 54:34

It's just listening to the Alcala alone in the cockpit listening to the radio. So what you're getting is that the music is patriotic. It's not very musically complex. A lot of it does kind of sound the same. There's not a ton of different genres. It seems like musical sort of self-expression is somewhat potentially stunted on this planet. Uh the themes of the music are all about like working for the good of the society, becoming better through suffering, devoting yourself to uh to cash. Uh like it like all very like.

SPEAKER_07 55:22

I mean, improving yourself through suffering, that does seem like uh that might be a derivative from Sith teachings.

SPEAKER_01 55:29

There, yeah, there's a lot of there's songs about like how cool it is to be disciplined. Like it's the it's a lot of um probably the closest analogue to something that you would be familiar with would be like like motivational like workout music done in the style of like military marches.

SPEAKER_07 55:50

Give me give me work bitch set to a major key.

SPEAKER_01 55:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 55:54

Give me work, bitch.

SPEAKER_07 55:57

You'd better work, bitch.

SPEAKER_01 56:01

Okay. Like it it doesn't seem too dissimilar in the past year, along with the uh the changing of the banners and the flags, they also introduced a new uh anthem, a new galactic anthem for the empire, and it it kind of reminds you of that a little bit. Interesting.

SPEAKER_07 56:18

Okay. Cause like, because I I know that it's like this is a s we know that this is a civilization that the Sith have touched, but I don't know if it's like we know for certain if they set up like a temple here or anything, or if there's like anything concrete that I could use the seek power on. Because it has to be something that you know about. Yeah. Unless I want to be like, I wanna seek a Sith temple. Just a Sith temple. Could I get that abstract?

SPEAKER_01 56:48

Um, yeah, potentially. If you want to try it.

SPEAKER_07 56:51

Sure, I'll give it a shot.

SPEAKER_01 56:52

So if you if you're pretty sure there's there's like some kind of Sith Temple or whatever sort of remnant of the Sith, you can roll your roll your seek power.

SPEAKER_07 57:02

Roll Ooh. One dark side, one light side. I do need to flip two pips just to activate the basic power for this. So uh do we ha we have destiny points, right?

SPEAKER_04 57:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 57:14

I'll flip one and take a strain so I can use the dark side and the light side to activate that.

SPEAKER_01 57:20

You can sort of like, after listening to this music, and you're like, okay, this kind of sounds like something that maybe, you know, if the Sith were here, they could have had an influence on this planet. Uh, you don't know that much about what the Sith were like, uh, but if you kind of step outside and you kind of move through the forest to the edge of the tree line, you are on this mountain. On one of so you can see as you step out of the tree line, first you can see this city. It does share, like the buildings do share a lot of sort of stylistic traits with things that you've seen in Ranala's studies about like the ruins on Korriban. Okay. But it looks a lot more modern. It's like uh like what if the Sith built Manhattan kind of thing. And it doesn't look like overtly ominous. It's in the middle of the afternoon, uh, sunny day, there's no air traffic, no ships flying around. It just but it does, it looks like a city, it looks kind of primitive. The buildings aren't as tall, especially not as like what you've seen on Nar Shada. The building materials and construction seem more primitive than you're used to. They do seem it does seem very like 21st century earth level, but with the seek power, you can see, you can kind of turn your head and see on one of the mountain peaks, sort of to your left, if you're looking out the uh the ocean, there's an ocean to your right, and then to your left there are more mountains, and you can see sort of poking out of the trees uh a building that does look very much like the Sith Temples on Korban that has been constructed on one of the other mountains.

SPEAKER_07 59:06

How far away does it look like this would be? Because like, I don't well, because if we did fix a ship so we could do some VTAL stuff, we might be able to fly over there, but otherwise we might it might be safer to just hike through the woods.

SPEAKER_01 59:19

So probably the like the mountain with the temple is probably in terms of climbing down, climbing back up, is further away than it would be to go into the city.

SPEAKER_07 59:32

What do you guys think? What are our choices again? Well, because we we could see if we could repair the ship to fly to that temple, which might tr attract the attention of the jets that I landed to avoid.

SPEAKER_10 59:47

I've already thought I feel like I've already thrown branches on our ship. On our giant ship.

SPEAKER_07 59:52

Yeah, or we could try going into the city, hope that it's not like too racially homogenous in terms of species where any of us are gonna stand out excessively.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:03

I mean, do you have like cloaks you could throw on?

SPEAKER_07 1:00:05

We do have we have concealing robes, right? We all have concealing robes. Get get close enough to spy on people and then see who we have to do a makeover on.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:15

Because we could have banal robes.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:17

Oh, it turns out everybody here is blue. Oh well, then that's not what we expected. My lucky day. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:27

Yeah, because I'm pretty sure we should we probably all have banal apparel. Like maybe we could go into town and see if we could steal a speeder or something to get up there or like ask for more information about it. Okay. So we have two options. What do you guys think?

SPEAKER_09 1:00:41

Let's let's um sneak in, walk in.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:44

Let's put on some trench coats and uh uh sneak by the uh denizens of this city.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:51

Go to town. Okay, let's go to town. Everyone put on your banal apparel.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:56

And don you now your banal apparel. Start making the trek down as you as you start hiking down. Chris, why don't you roll me a skullduggery? Just to see how well you hid the ship, because you may start to notice like helicopters circling around near where you crashed.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:15

Uh not depending on the city.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:16

Because even if those jets didn't see you, it's still like something big still crashed in the woods up on the mountain.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:22

What am I rolling against?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:24

Uh, this would probably. I'll give you a blue because you are kind of hidden, but it would be a skullduggery against the perception of probably a three purple three purple.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:35

We don't have a large concealing blanket that Han Sola used in the courtship of Princess Leia.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:42

An invisibility cloak. Why would the Imperial Knights need to conceal themselves? Hmm.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:48

Uh let's go. Because we're doing bonehead shit like this.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:51

Yeah. Well, three failure, but to advantage, so So you can do uh you can give it the old college try. Uh it may not have succeeded, but it'll probably at least make it so they won't find it immediately.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:05

They also if they do find it, also like they're not nobody's gonna be looking for you necessarily.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:11

I feel that does make me feel better. Yeah, it'll be fine.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:15

Uh give me give me an athletics, give me a two purple athletics, everybody, just to hoof it down down the mountain, see how long it takes you. Because that may also two purple athletics.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:26

One failure, two advantage.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:28

Everybody got the exact same.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:30

One failure, two advantage.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:32

We roll down the hill.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:35

I get a bestie. I got two failure, one threat.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:40

Okay. Well, I have to add all my dice for this.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:43

Well, La Dah, look at Starzan adding all his dice to athletics.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:47

One success, four advantage, three light side. Yeah, Starzan's fine.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:52

Can I use his advantages or you can buy some of these uh how many of us can Starzan carry?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:57

Uh he can carry Argo. And uh is that's probably is Panth Star coming with you?

SPEAKER_07 1:03:04

Oh yeah, Pant Star. Yeah. Gotta bring Panthar.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:08

Pant Star is just an animal. So those of you who uh failed the threat, so the failure is not that you cannot hike down a mountain. The failure is that it just takes you a long time. And Chris and Illyria, you do see, uh, because you got advantage, um, these big like cargo helicopters, they buzz overhead carrying your ship into the city. You can see where they're taking it.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:39

We won't have to uh backtrack to get our ship.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:42

How did they get our ship?

SPEAKER_07 1:03:44

At least they're taking it where we're going.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:46

Hold on, are they physically carrying it? Like on their backs?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:48

No, they've got like uh like chains or ropes or some kind of cables that they're lifting it with. And you're and you can see that they're taking it to what seems to be not a temple, it looks more like a castle that is in the middle of the city.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:04

Hmm, castles are usually where this stuff is found. Or Jedi stuff, I guess.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:11

Does it feel kind of like a um what's the phrase I'm looking for here? Like a town hall? Why don't you give me a knowledge education, potentially? Because I'm not very educated, that's why. Anyway, I am Yeah, Elyria can do it. Give me a two purple with a black.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:29

One success, one advantage. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:31

I got two advantages. Or sorry, two success, two success. I apologize, two success.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:36

So Chris and Elyria, you can tell, like, based on what you've studied, the there is a lot of overlap. So the building that they're taking it to is sort of pyramid in shape, but it also has like these five spires. Uh, one spire coming out of each corner of the pyramid, and one coming out the top of the pyramid. The top of the pyramid has kind of been sliced off, it doesn't come to a point. Instead, it's like a ziggurat, and then this big spire is coming out of it. It doesn't not look like the Jedi Temple or the Imperial Night Temple now. If you don't mind me asking, what is a ziggurat?

SPEAKER_07 1:05:14

Is that like the flat top? Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:16

Yeah, like a like a ziggurat is uh kind of what you get if you start building a pyramid and then stop.

unknown 1:05:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:26

We've done enough. That'll do. Yeah, no, I was trying to remember too, and I'm just like, I think It's a Pyrat meh.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:33

It's a Pira meh.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:36

Fantastic.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:37

No, it's a Pira mid.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:39

It's a Pira mid. Oh fuck.

unknown 1:05:41

You got it.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:42

You got it.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:43

Bang, bang, bang. Right there.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:45

Okay, shall we continue into town? Oh, I guess we should.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:48

You can continue into town. Uh you n you you know where they took your ship. That's that's that's good. And as you get into town, you can sort of stay hidden potentially. Uh Keep to the shadows, probably. Stay stay on the edges. It looks like a not a free and easy society. Everybody's kind of wearing similar garb.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:12

Uh, it doesn't look unlike uh what what Jedi are known to wear. There are a lot of people wearing like short tunics, some people uh that are older seem to be wearing almost like robes or togas, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of individuality. Most people's clothes are pretty much the same in terms of their cut or style. There is some variation, uh, a lot of sort of greys and dark reds, but not like no bright colors, no yellows, no nobody's trying to stand out. And the people, you notice, are human-ish? Human-ish.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:56

Human-ish.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:57

It seems like there's sort of the the full spectrum that you would see in a human population is there, but there are also humans that have like purple skin and like crimson skin. And some of them you also notice have these kind of like bony protrusions and ridges kind of coming off their face, and these small sort of almost like tentacles that come down off of their chins and sort of their cheekbones.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:28

Oh. Would okay. Xenology to know what? Knowledge lore?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:34

Yeah, knowledge lore. Uh I mean three purple with a blue.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:41

With a blue.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:43

Two success, two advantage.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:45

Uh, Illyria's got it. I just got one advantage.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:48

So Illyria, you guys have been reading up on Sith, you've probably brushed up on what they've kind of found in the ruins in Korriban. The facial features of the people, specifically like the bony ridges and the mouth tentacle things, the chin tendrils, they do look like statues that have been found on Korriban in sort of the Valley of the Dark Lords, which is where they have their tombs. You can like you've seen photos of people that look like this, and from what you can remember, that those facial features belonged to the indigenous inhabitants of Korriban, the Sith species. Oh. So it seems like the people who live here now are that genetic lineage still exists on this planet.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:42

That's fun. I don't know if fun's the right word, but you know. I get what you I get what you're putting down. You get what I mean.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:49

However, there are no green people.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:51

Damn.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:52

There are no people with antennae. Uh there are certainly no alien grays lurking around. And Argo says, oh, I think I'm standing out here. I should probably find a hat.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:08

Why do you not put on your banana apparel, you concealin' robes?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:12

Well, it's a little hard to conceal all this thunder.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:15

Does he know what you mean? Does he gesture at his ass when he says that? Or does he gesture at his big bulbous brain? Is he uh wanting to seduce Illyrio with his intellect?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:24

He gestures at his whole deal. His whole? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:27

His whole deal. His his deal with his hole. He is the whole man. Okay. Can we uh is there any way a thing we can do to conceal Argo before he attracts too much attention? Cause it's like, Cal, I can have a hood up to hide my antenna. I'm not gonna look that much that different. Starzan is Starzan.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:49

I'm just Starzan in it. Give me a three purple and a black skullduggery. Cause you'll probably have to steal some clothes.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:56

Three purple. Probably maybe me, actually. Let's see. I got a yellow, two green to skullduggery, so probably me.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:06

Hell yeah. Did you want uh uh unskilled assistant? Can we do that at all?

SPEAKER_07 1:10:11

Someone as distracts while I steal a hat from a vendor.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:15

Yeah, it would probably have to be if anyone's gonna be like doing anything that's directly interacting with somebody who lives here, it would probably have to be Starzan, because he's the only human being.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:27

Oh right. Allegedly. I need to do that. One of the situations where I might find the one who does your hat.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:35

One of the rare situations where Starzan isn't the one sticking out like a Thortun.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:40

Or at least less than the rest of us.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:42

Yeah. Well, okay. Should I approach people and just start talking about the blue?

SPEAKER_07 1:10:47

You can just add a blue. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:49

I'll add a blue.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:50

Okay, I'll add a blue. Let's see. Uh-oh. Uh, one failure, two threat.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:56

I need that uh-oh.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:58

Those purple dice, they are were stacked, and that blue did nothing, Starzane. You were not pulling your weight. I'm blaming you. I'm blaming you.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:07

I don't want to have to blame myself. I'm blaming you. Everybody's blaming at you. So you, Kala, you can sneak. Try and pull some cloaks off of a off of a rack in a store as Starzan tries to like distract the shopkeep. And you think you manage to do it, but as you go out, the alarm goes off.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:34

I'll just run. I'll just run.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:36

You run, the alarm goes off, and you hear, lickety split, the sound of sirens. Police cars, wheeled cars come rolling around the corner.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:48

God damn for shoplifting!

SPEAKER_01 1:11:50

And you hear the pop pop of uh distant gunfire at you.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:55

Can I can I elude them? Can I run into an alley?

SPEAKER_01 1:11:59

Yeah. So we got two threat?

SPEAKER_07 1:12:01

Yeah!

SPEAKER_01 1:12:02

Okay. So they've seen you. But these are, I mean, your your wanted level isn't that high, though on this planet it seems like they do like a little bit of overkill. Uh so if you want to lose them, they are in a car. So if you want to kind of duck into an alley or otherwise try to try to escape, uh gonna give you a destiny point. So that is gonna be a red, a purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:23

A red, a purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:25

That'll be stealth.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:26

My stealth is decent. I don't love that red though.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:29

Ah, great.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:30

Uh what do we have? Yeah, I agree, bud. What do we have for destiny right now?

SPEAKER_01 1:12:36

You have three.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:37

You know what? No, I'll just let it ride for this. We'll see what happens. One success to advantage. We're okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:42

Yeah, you can you can duck into an alley, you can escape with the cloaks. The police drive drive past. You can hear the sirens disappearing in the distance as they search for you.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:53

Ugh, we're okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:55

Minute.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:55

Thank goodness. And Starzan get out of there.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:58

Yeah, Starzan, as you're you're leaving, the shopkeep says, Oh, apologies. Uh, hopefully the police will find and kill that thief.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:08

Oh kill the shoplifting?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:10

That's I'm to understand is the uh appropriate response for shoplifting.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:16

Yeah, it's the I mean that probably gonna be a big news story. This'll be the uh first crime we've seen in the city this month.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:24

This month? Uh sorry, I don't know why I did that, like uh You know you're imitating Starzan. Uh and also I'm not there because I'm an alien looking. You're not there, you're at the tavern tavern getting drunk.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:38

You're at the tavern getting arrested for being alien. There are aliens there, I wanna do this. We bring you peace. We bring you love. I'll run this hat back over to uh fucking thrustmaster.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:53

Can throw it on his head, try and disguise himself, cloak himself. You guys can uh wear some local disguises. Maybe remove the security tags while you're while you're at it, but Oh yeah, let's get the security tags.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:05

I mean, give if this is the res response for shoplifty, it would not surprise me if the security tags had like trackers in them. No good. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:14

They have like some I'm with stupid shirts at the gas station we can buy it, uh god, I wish. Try and blend in.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:20

Or do they?

SPEAKER_01 1:14:21

I wish, I hope. If you do you do see a gas station that has some novelty shirts, uh, but the slogans don't say anything as banal as I'm with stupid. They say things like, uh, work, bleed, thrive.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:33

Oh dear.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:34

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:35

I think my brain's broken where it's like, that's not the TH word I thought was gonna be on the end.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:39

What was it? Um Girl Gatekeep, girl What is it? Uh Gatekeep, girl boss.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:47

Gaslight gatekeep girl boss.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:49

That's fun.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:50

Are we are we gonna try to get to the temple then? Or what we think might look like the temple where our ship was taken?

SPEAKER_10 1:14:57

I mean, uh We we probably should get all of our ducks in a row if we're gonna get out of here. By by duck do you mean the terrible turn? That's that's that's uh particularly the duck that I'm thinking of. The duck in question.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:12

Uh can we can we tell which way we'd have to go to get to the castle?

SPEAKER_01 1:15:16

Yeah, yeah, the castle is in a fairly prominent uh position in the city. Seems like there is sort of a hierarchy where it's like towards the edges of the city things are a little bit uh nothing in the city is like glamorous, uh, or extravagant or luxurious, but things do seem to get more comfortable the closer you get to this castle.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:40

Okay, can we can we kind of uh try to approach the castle, sticking to the alley and get a lay of the land, see if we can figure out how we might be able to sneak in? See if there's any sewer access.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:50

Well you can you can see that the the city is heavily patrolled by police. Like, you can't go more than a minute without seeing like a cob car driving by.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:01

Yeesh. Is i is this like a uh this feels like a f uh a very fascist state right now.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:08

Are you trying to tell me that a society influenced by the Sith descended into fascism?

SPEAKER_10 1:16:13

It seems like what's happening here. I feel like we should be I feel like we should be belonging here because we are part of the fascists, but like Now that sounds like fake news to me, dude.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:26

Get out of here. Maybe they do. Maybe. Maybe they just didn't catch me. There's the sexy outfits. Have we seen any other citizens? Are they all dressed in sexy onesies?

SPEAKER_01 1:16:43

Well, like like I said, a lot of them are dressed in like tunics onesies. Tunics and robes and togas. The police aren't wearing sexy onesie onesies, it seems like body armor is the order of the day.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:57

Day, no sexy onesies. Um, okay, how difficult would it be to uh remain relatively unnoticed by the police?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:05

As long as you're not doing anything illegal or acting suspicious, probably not that hard.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:10

Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. So as long as we don't start singing that to ourselves as we're going. Okay, can we can we get closer to this temple and try to get a lay of the land then? Just don't be suspicious.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:27

Uh yeah, that'd be a cool rule. I'm so fucking cool. How cool are we? Cool. What's the cool rule? Alright, what cut what what are we working on?

SPEAKER_07 1:17:37

Yeah, what are we what are we looking at for cool? Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:40

Uh so this would be cool against their perception. So uh as you get closer and closer to the castle, the police uh become more and more skilled. So if you're trying to get how close are you trying to get to the castle? Are we trying to get in the castle?

SPEAKER_07 1:17:57

I feel like for now, maybe like just get close enough that we can get an idea of what their security is like and how we might be able to get past it.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:05

How we might be able to enter, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:07

Recon distance if we could. Um, so you'd have to because the castle is also like raised up above a lot of the rest of the city. Are you gonna trying to like climb up on rooftops or anything?

SPEAKER_07 1:18:17

Oh maybe. Oh yeah, because if we if we can go a little bit further away and get on a rooftop, like I have the scope on my rifle, so we could maybe uh check from above. Not suspicious at all.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:28

Yeah, that's pretty suspicious.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:30

So uh club!

SPEAKER_01 1:18:33

So that would be start as a two purple. Uh, but you are being very suspicious climbing on rooftops with a sniper rifle pointing it right at the castle. Uh so we're gonna give you a uh destiny point, and we'll call that a red, a purple, and you're a pretty big group at this point, two blacks.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:50

A red and purple and two blacks?

SPEAKER_07 1:18:52

Uh for for cool.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:54

My two yellow cool my two green cool. One success, fuck yeah. What do we have for destiny?

SPEAKER_10 1:19:00

You have four.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:01

I'm gonna flip one to get a yellow.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:02

Me too.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:04

Uh ooh, two failure to advantage.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:07

One threat.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:09

Uh uh. Three threats. Oh yeah, Lyrial. Oh yeah, I know you only have one yellow to cool, don't you?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:15

Yes. So Chris can manage to get up onto a rooftop just fine. Uh Kala, you are spotted by police, but you've got uh Could could I have like passed my rifle off to Chris if it's like, oh he's gonna get up there, I'll let him scope it out. Yeah, if you want to use your advantage for that.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:36

Yeah, so at least they're not seeing me with a big gun.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:39

Can I go up there with like uh well it might be too late, but can I go up there with like a camera so I can like um uh take pictures or take a video and just be like, hey, uh I found these kind of things, and hopefully other people's perception will c uh kind of cover for mine.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:55

Like putting the camera s uh lens up to the rifle scope so it's all zoomed in enough.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:01

Well, Chris, you can climb up with the rifle. Uh unfortunately, Cal, you did get spotted. You did get spotted being suspicious. You're wearing the cloaks you stole from the store. Illyria and Starzan. Uh, you are also, you happen to be with her. You are accomplices. So you do hear some like police radio chatter, and then a couple of uh armored cops get out of their car and come towards you, and they say, Hey, hey, excuse me.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:31

Huh?

SPEAKER_07 1:20:34

Uh, not for me, not for me. I'm gonna keep walking, I'm gonna get away. You're under arrest. What? No, no, I'm not, no, I'm not. No, I'm not. No, I'm not, no, I'm not.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:45

You hear them drawing their gun. Stop now. Cut them down with your lightsaber. I'm not there.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:50

Uh do uh fucking I gave you my gun. God damn. Um are ooh. Well, no, it's just gun. It's just gun. I mean, unless they're planning to just take us into that same castle, if that's like the place. I wonder if maybe it'd be easy.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:09

Oh, these people know what lightsabers are, probably.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:12

Yeah, I was gonna say, well, no, because I mean not necessarily, because it's like they're using guns. They have like human-level technology. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:20

Like, we can part an old man from his cylinder.

unknown 1:21:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:25

This is my emotional support flashlight. I can't be without it.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:30

I'm sorry, did you say emotional support fleshlight? Okay, just making sure.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:36

The forbidden fleshlight. Yeah, because like maybe if they if we're like, yeah, sure, put us under arrest, just let them take us into custody, and then we'll like just cut our way out of the cell. Or we can try to run away. I I'm I'm open to suggestions.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:53

Can we run about this? There they it's one car, two officers.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:57

Oh, that's it?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:58

We can just come down. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:00

We could just cut them down. But then we would be increasing our wanted level.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:04

Assuming other police see you. Well, if we get to if we get a five-star rating, we can just uh get our vehicle spray painted.

unknown 1:22:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:12

And then no one will recognize us. You raise your hands. Here, go quietly.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:15

Have them put you in the back of the car.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:18

With their backs turned.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:19

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:20

And then wreck it.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:21

Or like have have your lightsaber up your sleeve and then like hold out your hands and it's like, yeah, sure, officer, cuff me, and then they approach you, you just turn it on so it like bursts out of your out of your wrist.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:32

I gotta say, in fact, I love Starzan's choice of like having his lightsaber have the ability we c to conceal it in something else, and deciding to conceal it inside of a bigger sword.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:44

No one will ever know. It's not about no one will ever know. What do you guys think? Fight for our lives or go quietly-ish?

SPEAKER_09 1:22:53

Uh, you can fight 'em. I haven't seen that.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:56

How how how many are there? I'm not there, never mind.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:59

Well, you're on the rooftop, you can kind of see. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:02

Unless. Because these are like derived from the old Sith. We haven't seen anyone with lightsabers, unless it's like, oh, like the old masters who are all hold up in their roof. Maybe. Maybe the red lightsaber is like a sign of uh authority. I'll ignite my red lightsaber and take on a defensive stance.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:23

That's the shit. So you can ignite your lightsaber, the cops, they stop, and the guy who like pulled his gun, his partner kind of puts puts his hand on it, kind of pushes him down like hey stop. He says, My lord, I'm I'm sorry. I didn't uh I didn't see your sign of office. Uh are you undercover? Are you and he kind of leans in. Hunting the aliens?

SPEAKER_07 1:23:43

Yeah, I'm deep undercover hunting the aliens. Hey, uh, I heard the ship got taken, got taken in. You found anything on it?

SPEAKER_01 1:23:53

Oh, I I I'm just a a beat cop, uh, sir, ma'am, uh, my lord. I wouldn't know.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:58

Yeah, yeah, no, you wouldn't know, would ya? What are my pronouns, bitch? Yeah. No, you uh yeah, we're undercover. Don't you bother me anymore. Otherwise, you know what happens.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:10

Uh of course, of course. Do you require an escort?

SPEAKER_07 1:24:12

Yeah, yeah, we require an escort. We require an escort to go and uh check on that that that alien craft for ourselves. Yeah, we do. You escort me.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:24

Very good.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:24

Hey on. Let me let me get the rest of uh the lords. We're all together, you see, our lords. Come on! Yeah, come on, my fellow lords.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:34

We are lords, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:36

We are lords.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:38

Yah yeah ya I I apologize, my lord. There is uh not enough room in uh the car for all four of you, five of you? S is that your what is that? Is that an alien beast? Oh, he's uh This is my animal companion, Panthar.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:57

No, because we're trying to catch the alien, so we uh got him in some makeup trying to make him think that he's one of them. Right?

SPEAKER_09 1:25:04

What? Panthe Hold on, hold on, what? No, not you. Pant Star is is in disguise?

SPEAKER_07 1:25:09

You not you star Zan.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:11

Well no, he he was talking about Panth Star, the alien beast.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:14

Oh, the alien beast. I thought he was talking about uh Thrustmaster. No, he's in disguise. Oh yeah, no, this is a uh I a top secret alchemical creation that the lords have been working on. So you it's top secret, don't mention it to anybody.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:30

Of of course not, of course not. Their powers are mysterious and powerful as always. But but I worry that uh the car won't have enough room for all of you. Would you like to borrow my keys?

SPEAKER_06 1:25:43

Yeah, yeah. We don't need you. Get out of here. Go.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:47

Take his keys. Uh do you know how to drive a car?

SPEAKER_07 1:25:51

Uh can I figure it out? I'm a pilot.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:55

Yeah, give me a- I'll give you a destiny point here, in case you really fuck it up. Uh give me a So for somebody who knows what they're doing driving a car would be like a one purple. So this could be a red and three blacks piloting planetary.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:11

Three oh goddamn, pilot piloting planetary isn't my good one. Ooh, do I want to do a mid-game level up? That's stupid. I'm saving my XP, but I mean you have three destiny points. You know what? I'm doing a mid-game level up because I don't have any ranks, and it is a career skill, so it only costs five. And I will flip a destiny point to get another yellow, so then it's two yellow, two green. And that was one red, three black.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:36

Get the fuck out of my face, three success, two advantage. Get the fuck out of my face, you stupid kid.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:43

Get ya fuck you. So you can pretend you know how to drive a car.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:47

Hell yeah, I know how to drive a car. This shit's amateur hour.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:51

You can you can drive it uh to the castle, and there is a a heavy metal gate uh that prevents you from entering, but if you flash your lightsaber, they open the door for you and let you right in. Right on. The alien craft has been brought to uh this big sort of courtyard in front of the castle, is where they've set it down, and there are lots of crews that are examining it, taking photos of it. Uh, and you can see that there are a couple of men who are in robes that are not overly gaudy, but definitely signify them as leaders. They both have crowns on their head. One of them looks to be pretty old, pretty wizened, the other one looks to be kind of in his fifties. Uh, and they're being shown around by some dude in glasses, probably a scientist. He seems to be wearing a like this long sort of uh gray coat. He has a clipboard, he's talking to them. You can't really hear from this far, but he's pointing to different things in the ship. I mean,

SPEAKER_07 1:28:00

I was just thinking, like, if we if we might have to be dealing with actual like Sith like force users here, then maybe I should have my suppress field active and committed. But also that might give us away.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:12

I mean, it feels safe more safe than uh feels like a safe and sorry kind of thing. It's true.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:18

So uh is that a have it active in case we get into combat or leave it down in case that provokes combat?

SPEAKER_09 1:28:25

Um put it up. Bring it up. Yeah, put it up.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:32

Bring it up. I'll put it up. Maybe maybe that'll at least uh make the other Sith Lords be like, ah, one of us. And she means business. Let's see. One dark side, one light side again. That's weird. Um, can I do another destiny uh flip and take a strain to use both? Yeah, maybe I'll maybe I'll do them both so I can increase the range as well, because then that at least gets it to uh medium range. Yeah, medium range for my my general bubble. Gucci. We all Gucci? Gucci. I love those purses. Don't we y'all? Okay, suppression field on.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:14

Okay, so you can step out. Uh, this cop car, this bevy of uh people who are not cops stepping out past the gate. That's that's gonna attract some attention, so let's see if you are made. So which of you has uh say d either stealth or cool skullduggery potentially? Because basically you just don't want to be spotted. You don't want them to look at you and notice you, right?

SPEAKER_09 1:29:44

Starzan has a rank of stealth, but three green in skullduggery. I got four uh in cool.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:53

I have yellow, three green to stealth.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:57

Can I do will power? Wait. Willpower discipline.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:02

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:03

I have one yellow, one green, and both cool and stealth.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:08

Okay, so to see if they see you. Some of you are better at hiding than others. Um I was gonna say that'll add a black on. You do have a couple of aliens. I'm gonna say that adds a blue. You are not supposed to be there. You are kind of not dressed as you're supposed to be. But I will I will say uh this will be against a three purple. Whatever, whatever we choose. Uh no, they are rolling against you.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:32

Oh, okay. Uh ooh, success and two advantages.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:35

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:36

So the older of the two men in uh crowns, he kind of looks over at you and he nudges the the younger one. And the younger man sees you and he says, I hope you can understand me when I ask if you've come to retrieve your ship. Do you think we don't speak basic? I mean, you're aliens. You're confident space creatures. Allow me to welcome you personally to Kesh. I am King Theris of Faithon, and this is my counterpart, King Nikander of Hyperion.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:19

Charm. And uh it is wonderful uh meeting such royalty here. We were wondering if you can allow us to uh uh inve investigate this ship.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:32

Because we were coming for like uh artifacts.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:35

Man, fucking we were coming to see if this planet uh Yeah, you didn't know it was on this planet whatsoever.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:40

You you were just kind of sent here generally to see if there was Yeah, your your overall goal is to try and f bring the Sith knowledge, teachings, something. You were looking for information about the Sith that could be useful to the Imperial Knights.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:56

And this place has like a big magnetic field around it?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:00

Yeah, that makes it so that repulsors don't work. So it seems like their technology is somewhat limited.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:05

Do you know why your planet is so isolated in the galaxy?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:09

Why have you disappeared? That's straight to the point, isn't it?

SPEAKER_05 1:32:12

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:13

Have we been observed for a long time?

SPEAKER_10 1:32:18

You haven't, honestly. You've uh uh we uh we've noticed that there was a big empty space here, and then we come here and then whoops, space no more.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:26

Well, our friend had like a little psychic uh moment. Uh he mentioned the planet Kesh, and nobody else had ever heard of it. There's no record of this place.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:38

So it is known that we are unknown. That is unfortunate, but it explains a great deal about our history.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:45

Why you've been left alone for so long.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:48

Yes, and you are all I can see that you are all of a uh varied makeup.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:54

Yeah, the galaxy is uh This is not makeup, it is war paint.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:57

Okay. Yeah, the galaxy's pretty uh integrated.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:01

Of course, of course. Would it be out of line if I asked you to a banquet?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:07

Not all of us?

SPEAKER_03 1:33:09

Yes, of course. We we've never been visited by Skyborne before.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:14

Perception.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:16

Yeah, can we can we perceive that? Or is it like, are we gonna go to the banquet and then it's gonna be like and you're the meal?

SPEAKER_09 1:33:23

How to cook four outsiders.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:25

How to cook four. So is it you think he's lying, or do you just want to read him generally?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:33

I want to read his intentions. Yeah, like not that I'm good at that.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:36

I don't know if he's necessarily lying, but it's like I feel like he might have ulterior motives.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:42

Okay, so that'll be against two reds, two purples.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:45

Ooh, we. I'm afraid. Ooh, one failure, three advantage.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:53

God, I'm gonna I'm afraid to roll.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:56

Oh fuck, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna succeed.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:59

Do any of us have good perception?

SPEAKER_07 1:34:01

I mean, I have three yellow and a blue. I got one failure, three advantage. Do we have destiny? I can see. I'm not gonna roll. Maybe you'll be luckier.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:12

Flip a destiny.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:13

Come on, Chris, live a little. Oh, fine.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:16

Two success, three threat.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:18

Yeah, see, look at Starzan go.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:21

Fine. Two reds, two purples. Skill issue. Uh, three threat, fuck you.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:28

It's fine. I got advantage.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:31

It's fine. So uh Starzan um can read him. And like obviously, this like this guy, he said he was a king, he said that the other guy was a king. Uh, this planet has two kings for some reason. Uh, but it seems he you can read him, he seems genuine. It kind of seems like he's just excited about getting to talk to some aliens.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:53

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:55

He's not gonna eat us. Chris, Illyria, and Starzan, you all got threat. Kala, you got failure with advantage. So Kala is the only one who sees this. The rest of you don't see this. That there have been people poking around inside your ship. And Kala, you can see them like one of them comes out carrying, and like this is like kind of a a clue as to how deeply they've been poking around your ship. One of them you can see comes out like holding like some of your impact, like not sure what it is.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:27

Hey, hey, hey, hey, you put that back now.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:30

Uh, and it's it's two people. They're dressed not as uh resplendently as the two kings, but similar, of similar garb. So uh they might be nobles or maybe the children of the two kings. Uh one of them is a man, looks to be about in his forties. He's starting he's starting to get a little bit daddy-ish. The other one is a younger woman in her 20s. And at this point, Kala, you notice how attractive everybody on this planet is.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:04

Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:05

A lot of hotties. To the point where you feel like either either like you kind of get an inkling either there's like a lot of eugenics going on, or like somewhere there's a baby skull pit where all the ugly babies get tossed.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:21

I I won't comment on the the the attractiveness, but I will kind of like everybody's a physical specimen. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_09 1:36:29

Absolute So Starzan's not the only absolute unit on this planet?

SPEAKER_01 1:36:33

Starzan actually fits in pretty well.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:35

Oh, nice. Oh there you go. The rest of well, I mean, well, no. I was gonna be like, well, maybe Chris, but it's like, well, no, he's an alien. Starzan.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:43

I come in, peace.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:45

Is this gonna be a Hutterite situation where they see blonde blue-eyed uh they're like, come on, Starzan, these like come seed.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:52

Spread seeds. Oh no, there's seeds naturally.

SPEAKER_09 1:36:55

Oh no, seed these semen demons.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:03

But it seems like these two these two younger nobles have been poking around your ship, potentially learning things about you.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:10

I'll I'll bark at them to like, hey, you put that back. What do you what are you doing on my ship? Get out of there. Get out of there, put back anything else you took out.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:18

And the the guy in his 40s, like, he's he's the guy who's who's got the impact. And he says, Oh, I'm sorry, is this yours? Is this mine?

SPEAKER_07 1:37:26

Put it back in my fucking room where you found it, you creep.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:29

And you're you're you're like this little wiry firecracker. And he and he comes up to you, he's significantly taller than you, he's you know, broad, broad chested, and he says, Well, aren't you an exotic little thing? He's never he's never seen somebody this ugly. It fascinates him.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:48

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:51

Oh no, he he's an alien fetishist. And and Argo, like, he leans to you, Chris, and he's like, wait, wait, is she hot? Uh she ain't cold. And and the girl kind of steps between uh you two and she says, knock it off. I'm sorry for my cousin's impertinence. And she snatches it out of his hand. This belongs to you.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:16

Yeah, it belongs to me. What else did you take off a ship?

SPEAKER_01 1:38:20

Only information.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:21

What kind of information?

SPEAKER_01 1:38:23

And she kinda looks to the older kings and she lowers her voice and she says, Well, information that it would be very interesting to talk to you about later, especially about this Galactic Empire.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:37

Did you want to join the Galactic Empire?

SPEAKER_01 1:38:40

See you at dinner. And she kinda walks away.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:43

Ooh, I think I was not expecting for this episode to take such a seductive turn. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:50

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:50

Okay. I I guess are so there are they put did they just give me my impact back or they're putting it back on the ship?

SPEAKER_01 1:38:56

Yeah, no, she gave you your impact back.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:58

I'll take it back and just kind of give her a nod, but can I can I go up to the ship and just take a look around, make sure they didn't plant any listening devices or anything?

SPEAKER_01 1:39:06

Yeah, you can you can go in. Uh there are some armored soldiers that are kind of standing guard, but after a nod from one of the kings, they let you board, and you can see there are like soldiers that are kind of looking around your ship as well. Like you're not allowed to be alone in there.

SPEAKER_06 1:39:22

In my own ship.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:24

Whatever.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:24

I mean, it's an it's an alien vessel. They need to figure out what it is.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:28

It's my ship. I'll just tell ya, I'll tell you what it is. Stop poking. Stop taking my shit.

SPEAKER_10 1:39:34

But what if you lie about it though?

SPEAKER_07 1:39:36

That's the steering wheel, man. I don't know what else to lie about.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:40

Yeah, it's mostly people like taking pictures of like the inside. Nob nobody's nobody else is really poking around in great detail.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:47

Okay. What do we say? Do we wanna go to dinner? Do any of us have nice clothes on this ship? I guess maybe if it's like this culture seems to like really value uh militaristic loyalty if we all just went in like our imperial knight garb.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:02

Can we can we go naked and see if they uh uh what are you gonna do with this?

SPEAKER_07 1:40:08

What are you gonna do about it?

SPEAKER_10 1:40:09

Just to just to be just to be like, oh no no, this is this is the way we get fancy. Yeah, and then when they get off and then if they like get off this planet and like try to do something if they get off this planet and like they they they go in front of the emperor and they're all fucking naked and stuff, we laugh at them because they're like, we tricked them. This is how you you do it.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:36

That's better than what I thought you were gonna say, which is like we go nude, convince them that it's our fancy dress, and if they get hard, they lose.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:46

What if they lose?

SPEAKER_01 1:40:53

And Argo's like, I'm way ahead of you, and he starts unbuckling his pants.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:00

Argo, come on. It was a joke, it was a joke.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:03

And I don't have that fancy uh night uniforms.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:06

I uh Honestly, if anybody could get away with it, it's gonna be Argo.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:11

He is kind of like the least like the people here, I guess.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:15

Look at him in his form!

SPEAKER_01 1:41:17

Yeah, he's he's like leaning up against the wall, twirling his noodle like a pocket watch. Oh Jesus.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:23

His noodle?

SPEAKER_01 1:41:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:25

His thin blue line.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:29

His thin blue line. Oh, I should probably uh coil this up. And he like rolls it up like a fruit by the foot, and he just kind of like Is that his dick?

SPEAKER_04 1:41:41

I don't like the description.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:44

He stuffs it into like a small skin flap pouch on it on the front of his body so that he appears smooth like a ken doll.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:52

Stuffs it into his reproductive sack.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:58

Do we have anything that Argo can put on, or is he really just gonna go Ken doll in the?

SPEAKER_01 1:42:03

When was the last time you saw a gray wearing clothes?

SPEAKER_07 1:42:06

Oh god, they're all perverts. Okay, are we all good to go in our Imperial Knight uniform and Argo is good to do that, I guess? Or do we all wanna go nude?

SPEAKER_10 1:42:17

Probably wear clothes. We should probably wear clothes. We should probably wear clothes. He g yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:22

Yeah, it's it's a cultural thing for him. All his people go nude. You gotta look at his weird genitaless form.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:29

So you can change into your your uh armor looking very spiffy as you follow the kings and uh their children into the into the banquet hall. And the the man, the 40-year-old man, the seems to be the son of the older king. He looks at the nude Argo uh following behind and he says, Oh, is this your Helot?

SPEAKER_06 1:42:51

A uh what?

SPEAKER_01 1:42:52

Is he a uh a slave, a servant? Should we put him to work?

SPEAKER_10 1:42:55

Excuse me, no, no, no. This man is this uh this man is uh royalty of a different sort. This is the way that he prevent presents himself.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:03

Oh, a king of a distant land, you say.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:06

Uh just like you'll uh you'll be if thing if things go uh well, I'm assuming. What do you mean? Nothing for now. We're gonna offer him a kingship. I mean may I mean maybe he might want to uh maybe he might want to uh uh see what the empire's like, but uh we'll we'll put we'll put that in the I assure you Kesh has no need of any intruding empires.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:33

We got we got family discord. Not Discord, but you know.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:37

We we we won't butt our affairs into anything that doesn't need butting into, but uh uh let's see how tonight goes.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:44

You're led into this uh grand banquet hall where the kings take their seats at the the head of the table and their children beside them, and there are places of honor uh next to each of them, and there are also like a selection of gathered nobles, and the older king stands up as you enter, and he says, Behold our honored guests, the skyborn aliens! And everybody claps very politely for you.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:19

Woo! Ha! Not awkwardly. Hello? Do we have like assigned seats?

SPEAKER_01 1:44:25

Yeah. So there's there's seats for like the on the right side is the older king and then his son, and then seats for you a couple of you guys, and then on the left side is the younger king, his daughter, and then seats for a couple of you guys. Where where do they want all of us sitting? You guys can choose which of the seats who who you sit beside. Ooh.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:47

Should we split up as to not offend anyone?

SPEAKER_07 1:44:50

Well, yeah, I mean, like, it's too on easy.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:52

They assumed that the naked alien behind you was like a slave or something, so it's like they they hastily put a chair in for him. Is a slave with you.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:01

This is a king, you bass.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:03

A naked king.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:04

The naked king. Do not offend his culture.

SPEAKER_09 1:45:07

Yeah, have you seen the Emperor's new clothes?

SPEAKER_07 1:45:09

I love them.

SPEAKER_09 1:45:11

We're living through it, baby.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:12

Okay, well, I mean, I'll I'll sit next to the the guy who is hitting on me, because god Kala does want to feel special sometimes.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:22

I just want to feel loved.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:23

I just want to feel something. Make me feel good.

SPEAKER_09 1:45:27

Monsters balls.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:28

I remember that movie. Look, Kala just keeps striking out with everyone and everything, so like. I'll sit next to the Dilfy the Dilpy son.

SPEAKER_09 1:45:40

The Dilfy son.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:42

Okay, who's gonna- I'll sit next to Thought Daughter.

SPEAKER_09 1:45:44

Thought Daughter.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:47

What are their remaining options? I was sits next to Thought Daughter as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:52

So, Starzan, you're gonna be with uh Kala on the Dilf side? Sure.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:56

I I do like the idea of like Illyria sits next to Thought Daughter and then Chris moves his chair and just sits on the other side of Thought Daughter and they both just look at her. Are they gonna play Footsie?

SPEAKER_10 1:46:09

It's a pleasure to meet you. Are they going to play Footsie?

SPEAKER_07 1:46:14

All three of them.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:16

Yeah. We're still on a break.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:19

Zinn can't know about this. Oh, Zinn's probably fucking her own thought daughters, too.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:25

Zin, don't don't worry. We we understand that we are when we are on a break, we fuck around. We have a thing.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:32

You have a thing. Look, thought daughters are back on the menu.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:35

There's a chair in the corner of her room just for Chris.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:40

It's well worn.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:43

No, that's my situation, Shipscock chair. Only he gets to sit there.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:49

So you can take your seats at uh the banquet, and the uh the younger king who uh was curious introduces uh his children officially. He says, This is my uh daughter, Vistara, and on the other side is my nephew, Derish. And and Derish uh he turns to you, Kala, and he says, Charmed, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:15

And um I oh yeah, I guess we didn't introduce ourselves. Um Kala Kala set lovely to uh meet you officially. Vistara Derish. Did we get the names of the kings?

SPEAKER_01 1:47:26

Uh yeah, the the younger one is Theris and the older is Nikander. And your the duo is Argo Thrustmaster.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:35

Oh, I got him down. I got him down.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:38

That's the only name that I've memorized in like five campaigns.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:42

I mean, even then, it's like I remember the last name more than the first name.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:46

I remember the first name because I'm a big fan of the movie Argo by Ben Affleck.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:51

That's fair. Yeah, I'll I'll yeah, I'll introduce myself to a Derish is like Callisette. It's uh lovely to meet you officially. All of you, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:01

All of us. And the the younger king, Theres, he says, why don't you regale us with tales from the stars? Where do you hail from, travelers?

SPEAKER_07 1:48:11

Oh, who's the best at regalin? Chris, Chris, you are regaler, right?

SPEAKER_10 1:48:15

I can regale some fine stories of uh uh uh party's past.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:22

I or or or we want to be more official and say we're from the Galactic Empire? We could probably do that, yes.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:28

Uh hello. Uh uh Bonjo, we uh here working uh working on behalf of the Z of the Empire.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:36

We uh The Empire. Which I'm sorry, uh which Empire is that?

SPEAKER_07 1:48:41

Oh the The uh Galactic Empire.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:44

The the Galactic the Galactic Empire. The entire galaxy? They help keep uh uh balance and order to the uh entire uh into the entire galaxy, making sure that uh everything is as fruitful and as magnificent as it absolutely uh can be.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:05

And you are what, envoys of this galactic empire, messengers?

SPEAKER_10 1:49:10

We are explorers. Uh right now we are envoys, but uh we were j uh but we've uh heard of a uh anomaly in z in this base uh uh particular area.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:24

An anomaly? Something that the Empire seeks to correct?

SPEAKER_10 1:49:28

No no no. Something that uh the Empire would like to be educated on. We we are uh ones we are people who uh need to be educated about how the galaxy works. We could always we could always learn more. We are the arm of the em of the empire that educates.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:49

Uh, the arm and on the edge of an arm is a fist, is it not? Oh, on the edge of that arm. It could be an uh open hand.

SPEAKER_06 1:49:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:57

And Vistar, she says, Father, father, it's If they were here to destroy us, they would have been able to easily. The ship that they fly in is immensely powerful. And her dad just says that's what I'm worried about.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:11

Look, we're a small exploratory force. We are, you know, got wind of your planet, and we're just curious about what was going on here. We're not looking to colonize, but you know, we are looking to expand our knowledge base and you know, perhaps other traditions that might have things to share with us.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:30

If you do not want to be a part uh a part of us, if you want to stay in the uh solitudes that you uh put in yourself, uh then we can't make you do any things that you don't want to do. However, I feel as though we may have a mutual beneficial relationship if we do decide to come together, but again, I feel I feel as though we can make make magic happen. Make real ma magic happen.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:55

Cash will not be under anyone's boot heel.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:58

No, no, no, not not boot heel, just you know. You you you you you keep th you keep thinking that we are going to uh take you over. That is not what we're interested in. We're we're interested in put putting down a ladder and uh seeing if you would like to climb up it is all.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:14

And you just stumbled across our world accidentally and you want to do what bring us into the full.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:21

Fucking I told you already, guy. Well, Chris, Chris, it's all it's okay. It's okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:51:26

I don't actually say that. It's like I don't Go ahead.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:30

Now you like look, E, it's not unreasonable for you to be cautious, but it's like we uh we uh we've been interested in learning more about the traditions of the old Sith, and we heard that they had contacted your planet some time ago looking around at some of the people. It seems like they might have played a larger role in your society than we realized.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:52

And the the elder King Nicanders is excuse me, what do you mean old Sith?

SPEAKER_07 1:51:58

Well in uh I I guess in our neck of the woods, like people who who look like you, they we don't see them that much anymore. The the the teachings of the Sith got uh, you know, picked up by some other people, but the actual, you know, people, the Sith, like, not not seen so much.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:16

You're saying that our uh forebears are extinct?

SPEAKER_07 1:52:21

I mean, yeah. I don't like I mean, I guess it depends on what you consider to be your forebearers. Cause I mean, like, obviously, like your forebearers led to you being right here. Like the people who look like you out in the greater galaxy, yeah, like not so not around so much anymore, but you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:38

Tell me, are the Sith well known in the rest of the galaxy?

SPEAKER_07 1:52:42

Um I g well not really, because it's like I feel like the Sith kind of came more into prominence during the war, but it's like they'd kind of been thought to be like toasted.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:52

Yeah, they're they're they're at best a conspiracy theory.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:52:56

There are many there are many legends about the Sith. Some are true and some are not. Yeah, I mean I'm I Faded into myth.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:03

Yeah, in in a way, I mean like the there was there was a uh a spiritual order called the Jedi, who uh I'm afraid kind of had a bad habit of suppressing other force traditions.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:14

Our our records have mention of these Jedi.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:18

Uh well, they're kind of the the the people we're trying to um do better than right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:24

Would would you, after this banquet, would you be willing to uh uh accompany us to the to the temple on the mountain?

SPEAKER_07 1:53:30

That is Ah my god, you would not believe where we were wanting to go before all this.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:35

I I feel it would be a a great uh way for us to share knowledge with each other. You can learn of our history and we can learn more of what has happened since since we have been gone. It's uh sounds like perhaps the galaxy is absent of our people.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:54

And the younger king he says, Well, that's perfectly fine with me.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:59

Uh but yeah, like after the banquet, I I think uh everyone we'd be uh uh totally hunky-dory with going to that temple with you. We we'd really love to see what was in there too.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:09

Well then uh it will be done. And uh uh forgive me for asking, but what is that thing?

SPEAKER_07 1:54:16

Thing?

SPEAKER_01 1:54:16

Yeah, he pointed at Argentina.

SPEAKER_10 1:54:17

Is he pointing at Argo?

SPEAKER_01 1:54:18

Yeah. Oh, he's uh And Argo just kind of looks up and he says, Hey, I'm just uh here for the food, man.

SPEAKER_07 1:54:24

He's uh he's uh you know, just one of the many uh different types of people in the galaxy. Uh it's a very multicultural place, the Empire, and this is uh Argo, he's um that is his cultural dress is nothing. That is traditional for his people.

SPEAKER_10 1:54:41

He is gloriously nude.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:43

Yeah, he's like leans back in his chair. There's like some noblewoman that's like sitting but beside him that he's trying to chat up now.

SPEAKER_09 1:54:50

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:54:51

What a guy.

SPEAKER_09 1:54:52

Oh yeah, dog.

SPEAKER_07 1:54:53

What a guy!

SPEAKER_09 1:54:54

You ever see a thin blue lion like this?

SPEAKER_07 1:54:58

Unspools it at the table. God, he better, he better not. We're trying to be on our best behavior here.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:05

And uh Derish, as the banquet is is going on, he says, uh, well, before you tell us about our culture, how about we show you a bit of ours? And he kind of claps uh and signals the start of the banquet entertainment, a nice bit of blood sport.

SPEAKER_07 1:55:23

Oh, I mean, we've participated in blood sport before.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:26

Yeah, a couple of uh a couple of young men, uh freshly shaven, are brought into this sort of you didn't notice it until now, but there's kind of like an arena in the middle of the banquet hall. Uh these two boys, probably not much older than 16 or 17, brought into the arena. Their bodies are scarred, they're just wearing like these shorts. Uh, but they're they look pretty like wiry and and muscular, and they bow to each other and they return to the edge of the sort of circle that they're fighting in. They're handed these knives, and then they just start going to town, fighting each other, trying to stab each other to death.

SPEAKER_06 1:56:08

Oh, and um these uh where where do you get the fighters?

SPEAKER_01 1:56:12

Well, these are our apprentices. Every boy on kesh enters training at seven years old, and when he becomes twenty, he becomes a man and enrolls in our military.

SPEAKER_07 1:56:24

I see. So, um, how many of them make it to manhood, dare I ask?

SPEAKER_01 1:56:30

The strong ones.

SPEAKER_07 1:56:32

Cool. Cool, go cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:33

Gets the blood pumping, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_07 1:56:36

Uh, when he says that is a kind of like, you guess the is he trying- is this like, does this do it for you?

SPEAKER_01 1:56:44

Yeah, he's like, Do you like this? Is this good for you?

SPEAKER_07 1:56:47

Uh, you know, I uh I'm not looking to cause any waves. Yeah, uh that that's good. It's good. I I love this. This oh yeah. Love seeing children killing each other.

SPEAKER_10 1:56:59

Oh yeah. Oh, they only die if they're weak. Oh, yes, of course. That says Yeah, that is absolutely fair. They only die if they are weak.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:09

That's true. And as we know, weak people can never get to be strong people. They are just weak forever.

SPEAKER_03 1:57:15

They're weak forever.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:16

They're weak forever.

SPEAKER_03 1:57:17

Yes, that's why we have the baby skull pit.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:21

Oh You know, I was getting the vibe of a baby skull pit. It's so good to have that confirmed. Where's that Death Star when you need it?

SPEAKER_10 1:57:30

And we gotta plan it here.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:32

Yeah, let's just get rid of this place.

SPEAKER_09 1:57:34

No, it is Maybe there's a reason this place was undiscovered for so long. No one wants to be here.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:40

On second thought, you know what? That is fine. I'm not looking to cause any waves right now.

SPEAKER_10 1:57:49

Well, that's gonna you have to cause any waves.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:51

I'm not here to piss on your culture.

SPEAKER_10 1:57:55

We are waveless. I mean, we did bring a naked guy into dinner. What a faux bot that was.

SPEAKER_07 1:58:02

Look, we're not the boss of him.

SPEAKER_10 1:58:04

I'm sorry that I gave him the idea, but uh, yeah. Was this your fault? I guess so. Yeah, let's just like Chris.

SPEAKER_07 1:58:12

Can we Oh god, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:14

So you can uh watch this, uh these two kids uh stabbing each other to death.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:21

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:22

And after the banquet, if you're if your appetite isn't totally ruined, uh the kings lead you out to the helipad where they take you by helicopter over to the temple.

SPEAKER_07 1:58:33

Let's go. And let's go.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:35

Derish says as as you're flying over, says, It's a beautiful city, is it not?

SPEAKER_07 1:58:40

It sure is. It it really is. Yeah, it's uh the architecture, it's very distinctive, and we don't see it that much in the in the empire, like mostly sort of styles you see in um like archival stuff. Beautiful to see.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:55

Well, you know what's even more beautiful city. You say the things that are ugly have beauty of their own.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:04

What the fuck does that mean, you asshole? The best come online.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:07

Here on Cesh, we strive for perfection. Our minds and of course our bodies, and to see somebody who does not care about perfection at all is Well, that's quite rare.

SPEAKER_10 1:59:26

Uh yeah, it's my uh yes, she is quite a sloppy bitch.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:32

In in in the helicopter, Vistara just like kicks him in the shin. Just shut the fuck up, Derek.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:39

God, Derish, you really know what to say to make a girl feel special.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:42

Oh, don't worry, Derek uses this line on everybody.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:45

Oh, he's just Negan. That's just his thing, huh?

SPEAKER_01 1:59:49

Yeah. Okay. I mean, sure, you know, his he is handsome, I'll give him that. Got a big car, but you know.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:56

Wait, isn't he cousin? Why do you know that?

SPEAKER_01 1:59:58

You've never done cousin stuff?

SPEAKER_07 2:00:00

Oh god. Oh. I mean, they are nobility. That is kind of the uh no, I can't say I've uh ever done cousin stuff. I don't really know any of my cousins. Uh I don't know if that is the uh I got You don't trace your bloodlines in the Empire? Uh I mean some people do.

SPEAKER_10 2:00:23

Uh qu uh question. When you when you say cousin stuff, do you like, is the entire planet just one bloodline or Oh, no.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:32

Uh I am of the Faithen bloodline, and Nikander is of the Hyperion dynasty. The uh the ancient Sith who first well, you'll see, uh when the Omen first came, they were two of the most powerful warriors aboard, and uh we are of their blood.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:51

Oh, okay. Uh yeah, no, uh no, we uh we grew up in a cult.

SPEAKER_07 2:00:57

We don't know any of our family. Uh so I don't know if that's uh culturally normal to do cousin stuff, but um you know what?

SPEAKER_01 2:01:04

Not for us. You were raised in a cult. How does we raise our children communally? There's not really much concern uh aside from uh the ruling families about whose parents is whose, as long as the the child is raised strong.

SPEAKER_06 2:01:19

Oh, that sounds nice. That sounds nice. Um a little different. We're we're we're we're well, okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:25

Well You don't you don't value your society? Hmm? Well, here on Kesh, we put the society above all. That's what we fight for, and that's what we train for, and that's what we we bleed for, for for stability and order in our society. Everybody gives and everybody benefits.

SPEAKER_07 2:01:44

Uh well yeah, we we value order in our society, but also the uh society that was happening was kind of um not not great, which is why uh the Galactic Empire we kind of came into be in to improve and uh you know, improve what was wrong with the old society. The society where we were uh raised in a cult and didn't see any of our family when we were little kids.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:09

Well that makes sense. We did that too. Like it was it was longer ago, but uh that's that's why we don't have any crime in our cities.

SPEAKER_07 2:02:17

Yeah, you know, and you know sometimes it's worth it so you don't have crime in the city.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:22

Something when somebody does something wrong, the punishment has to be swift and severe to deter people from doing it again.

SPEAKER_07 2:02:27

Yeah, I mean like, you know, the execution for shoplifting does seem a little severe, but you know, like if that's your society, that's your thing. That's not none of my business.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:35

Oh no, it's not it's not severe at all. It's actually uh it's quite sanitary, actually. There's uh no crucifixion, no torture.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:44

No crucifixion? We we went to there, we went like that's a that's a uh I mean I guess that is a positive thing. Like we're not gonna yuck your.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:56

Um I I imagine if you have different standards, um seeing a thief uh executed in the street might seem a little extreme to you, but it does prevent thievery.

SPEAKER_06 2:03:07

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:03:09

Um, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. I I uh I don't know if we want to bring these people into the fold. If this is this is their their society, they've been isolated, that's their thing. I'm kind of like, if we can get what we need to know about the Sith from here, and then like I I don't know if we want to bring these people in. To be honest. What do they have that we wouldn't want? I mean, we'll find out in the temple if there's anything once we get there. Yeah, so get there. So these people stop talking to us about how they like to kiss their cousins.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:44

The helicopter lands uh outside of this ancient-looking temple. A lot of the city is very modern, but this temple looks like it was built uh thousands and thousands of years ago and very well maintained. And the older king, the Cander, he leads you, says, Come, come, I'd like to show you the omen. Let's go see the omen. And you can enter. I love this movie. Immediately, like, the temple appears to be a facade because like as you approach, these big heavy, like, metal doors like swoosh open, and you can enter and you can see that inside the temple, like, this door leads inside a starship that is buried underground.

SPEAKER_06 2:04:29

Oh. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:37

Nearly 7,000 years hence.

SPEAKER_07 2:04:40

Oh, the the ship itself is called the omen.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:43

Yes. One of two vessels. The other disappeared. Know not where it went, but survived. Certainly did not crash here, and we have heard nothing from anyone in those 7,000 years. This ship uh is unable to fly, sadly, but it has enough energy to keep our history alive.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:06

Okay. And uh, so what were we what was it on here that you were wanting to show us?

SPEAKER_01 2:05:10

You mentioned the Jedi, and he leads you down this hall, and there's like this almost like a historical, like, mural with like statues and like carvings in the walls that seem to sort of tell the history of the Sith.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:25

And he says, our ancestors were once exiled from an order of sorcerers called the Jedi, the same ones that you mentioned. They were exiled for uh well, uh valuing strength and not hiding from their emotions, but from controlling them. And these these Jedi, well, we learned from them too. I I don't know what your relationship is with them, but from the Jedi is where we learned our discipline and our our restraint and our dedication to a higher purpose, and from the exiles, we learned to value strength and gained our our discipline and knew that hardship and suffering are tools to help us become stronger. Our Sith ancestors embodied both of these organizations, but it sounds like both the Jedi and the Sith are no longer around.

SPEAKER_07 2:06:19

Uh yeah, not really.

SPEAKER_10 2:06:20

Like the Jedi Well ev everything uh it's not as if they are gone and forgotten. Everything just evolves and changes. It's not uh it is like with everything itself. Eventually uh eventually, I'm sure your your your uh your people will uh evolve and change yourselves.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:42

That is what I am hoping. You see, I believe that our world needs to expand if it is to create need to find more worlds to spread our message to, to bring peace to. We have uh turned this world into a safe haven. There is no crime, there is no war, there is only the respect for power in those who wield it, and we believe that we could be a boon to your what is it, Galactic Empire?

SPEAKER_06 2:07:10

Okay, the Galactic Empire.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:12

Would your Empire be willing to bring the Sith into their fold?

SPEAKER_10 2:07:16

Uh We can get we can talk to them about it at least.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:22

Because like uh we're we're certainly open-minded. Um, because we we're I I think we mentioned we're representatives from uh the Imperial Knights, which is kind of the the new the new uh not military, um I guess spiritual, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:37

It we're still trying to kind of figure out exactly what we're what we're doing, but uh guess you feel the power of the force as well, though I have must admit that since you arrived I have uh felt its presence dampen. Is it different where you come from?

SPEAKER_07 2:07:51

Oh, yeah, no, sorry, that's me. I'll I'll drop the suppression field. And they're like, no, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. I mean maybe. I'm my guards down. If that's the case, I'm prepared to die. I'll just drop the suppression field, just like, oh yeah, no, sorry, I uh forgot it was on. There it is.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:10

The power I was missing? I feel like this is gonna go bad. Are there more like you in in the Empire?

SPEAKER_07 2:08:18

Like me?

SPEAKER_03 2:08:18

Like us that feel the power of the force and wield it as their strength.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:23

Oh yeah, there's like uh Knight Commander, there's like, yeah, there's a lot of people. Um, but like, you know, maybe uh as we're kinda getting to know each other, if there's like a representative from your society that you'd like to have come to be uh, you know, sit in with the Imperial Knights, get a feel for what we're gonna get an idea of 10,000 Sith warriors on Kesh.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:44

Trained to use the force.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:45

Oh, oh my, okay. Um that would be good for us. That would be good for us.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:51

I am uh getting a little weak in my old age, but my counterpart, Theris, uh, his daughter of a star, my son, Darish are all powerful warriors as well. Unequalled on cash.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:06

Um I have a force rating of six myself.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:09

Oh wow. That's way better than my force rating. Because, like, uh, is is the is there s like a singular person among you that you would feel comfortable with kind of being the initial uh point of contact as we, you know, maybe work out the details?

SPEAKER_03 2:09:26

Well, that is the problem. As you have noticed, Kesh has two kings to prevent tyranny, to balance power, to ensure the continuity of the government should something happen to one of us. And as you may have heard at the banquet, Theris and my son do not wish to join the rest of the galaxy. Vastara and I see the benefits that we could provide and see the benefits that your empire could provide to us. Vistara being Theris's daughter would be next in line for his throne, should something happen to him.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:01

Uh Are you saying okay, I'm just uh I'll just kinda quietly say to him, just like, I are you trying to um like, you know, maybe you'd be good if something were to happen to him?

SPEAKER_03 2:10:14

I would not wish any blood spilled, but I understand that laser swords do not spill blood. Uh what do we I hate that I hate that sentence. Uh think of what ten thousand Sith warriors could do for your empire, for your imperial knights. I must assume that you have millions of warriors of your own, but certainly we can be a formidable force.

SPEAKER_10 2:10:42

I mean, we we we got we got millions of warriors of our own. That it that is absolutely true.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:47

Yeah, I mean, like, not not so many foss uses, but uh And if we could borrow the energy from your starship, perhaps we could even deliver these warriors with the omen itself.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:00

I don't know, what do you guys think?

SPEAKER_09 2:11:06

There's just one catch.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:07

I mean, I feel like the one catch is that we have to kill this old guy and potentially uh deal with his son.

SPEAKER_09 2:11:13

Then we'll get even more problems after that, too. As is usually the case.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:18

But we would get all these warriors for the Imperial Knights, and like let's need need we remind ourselves the the temple is very empty right now. We don't really have a lot of other warriors.

SPEAKER_09 2:11:31

That's true. And like uh what's the worst that could happen?

SPEAKER_07 2:11:35

What's the worst that could happen?

SPEAKER_01 2:11:38

Okay, alright.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:40

Okay, where because where is the other king?

SPEAKER_01 2:11:42

So he's he's there, but he's kind of like hanging back. You you've convinced him that uh Argo Thrustmaster is a king. So he's like showing him like the murals and stuff, and Argo's going, yeah, okay. Uh huh. That's fucked up, okay.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:00

How how many other people are here with us?

SPEAKER_01 2:12:02

Aside from the helicopter pilot that's out on the landing pad, it is uh just you, the two kings, and their kids.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:12

We can't compromise and just take some people off planet and let the other people live in peace.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:18

Uh look, um, you know, it's it's your son who uh doesn't really want to be leaving, you know. Perhaps uh My son knows better than to act against me. By chance is the other king's back turn to us.

SPEAKER_01 2:12:31

Yeah, uh Argo's got him distracted.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:34

Argo's got him distracted. Could uh this feels so uh rude. Could I just try to do a headshot on him from behind?

SPEAKER_05 2:12:45

Rude.

SPEAKER_10 2:12:47

I mean, if somebody was to shoot me from uh the uh at the back of my head without my knowledge, I would consider that pretty rude. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:12:56

I'm sorry, I know killing you is a faux pas.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:59

Look, I dropped my I dropped my suppression field, so I can't add both my force onto that.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:04

Okay. You wanna uh This will be against his vigilance then.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:09

So it's the uh it's Ferris, the younger king.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:13

We've chosen which king to follow.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:16

I guess I have. I maybe I'm just tired, but uh, yep.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:20

Let's just do this. Okay, so this'll be uh your cool against his vigilance.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:27

Oh no, my cool, I can't just try to shoot.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:30

I mean, you gotta earn your ability to shoot in the house.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:35

I had my my gun dice all lined up and everything.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:39

Uh you're low on destiny points, so we'll give you one. This will be against a red and three purples.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:45

Three purple. Ooh, what do we have for destiny?

SPEAKER_10 2:13:50

You have two.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:51

I'm gonna flip one and get a yellow.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:53

Do it.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:53

I only got two green. It's probably gonna go badly. One failure, three threat. Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 2:14:00

As you draw your gun, you pull it out, and like the sound of it or the intent of it, he looks away from Argo and sees you before you can fire a shot off. But then the trigger is pulled. The barrel explodes, a bullet flies out, pierces his head. Okay. Kind of takes a chunk out the back of it, uh the back of his skull. Okay. Where's my threat? And Nicander, the older king, says, The aliens have attacked!

SPEAKER_03 2:14:36

Kill them! Take their ship!

SPEAKER_07 2:14:40

Ah, there's the cat.

SPEAKER_09 2:14:42

Yep. There's that shoe that we were waiting to drop.

SPEAKER_10 2:14:46

I mean, you made the drop the shoe drop uh a bit faster than it would have, so this is probably for the best.

SPEAKER_01 2:14:52

Garish and Vistara obviously don't know what happened. Uh they only see that their uncle slash father's head got a big chunk blasted out of it. A couple of red lightsabers ignite in the dark of the starship.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:06

Uh oh man, we are away from our ship too, aren't we? Because it was in the city.

SPEAKER_01 2:15:11

Nikander's hands start crackling with electricity.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:15

Uh for fuck's sakes. Well, I do have the upgrade. It costs a destiny point, but I can spend a destiny point to use suppress as an out-of-turn incidental. So I could just get that back up right quick, because uh oop, I was sleepy and I made a bad choice. We got a destiny right. Yeah, you have one left. Holy fuck. Um, I got four light side. What am I at for strain?

SPEAKER_01 2:15:44

You used your destiny to use it as an incidental. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:15:48

It's okay. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine, that's fine.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:52

No, it's not. It's not fine. I used up the last destiny point, got four lights, I can't use any of them.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:59

Can I control critical on this guy?

SPEAKER_07 2:16:02

Yeah, Lyria, just can you just boil his brains out? I did a bad I made a bad choice. I I'm tired, I wasn't hearing from anyone else, man. Like. It's alright.

SPEAKER_09 2:16:12

We were all kinda on the same page. Fudge. If we said no, I feel like the same thing would have happened. This wizen Sith King seemed like such a good guy.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:21

You know what? Go fuck yourself. Should we be rolling sh should we roll initiative?

SPEAKER_10 2:16:28

Yeah. Yeah I mean, now's the time. No time like the present.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:32

But we be rolling vigilance. We were expecting this. Um Yeah, it could be vigilance. Vigilance. Sure.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:39

For success.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:41

I got one success, seven advantage. That's that'll help you with any tiebreakers. One advantage.

SPEAKER_01 2:16:47

Uh a success and an advantage. Okay. Um, Chris, do you want to roll your ward's foresight? Sure. Because uh Ward's Foresight can be used during initiative.

SPEAKER_10 2:16:57

Uh I will, I will, yeah. So I got one light side and two dark side.

SPEAKER_01 2:17:04

Okay. Which I will use. So yeah, you can either add, if you want to add either a success or an advantage to your first, you can. Or you could give it to an ally.

SPEAKER_10 2:17:15

Does anybody have a plan of what they want to do during this?

SPEAKER_01 2:17:18

Like, should I give it to uh You can also uh go ahead with that control, because you got if you're because you're using the dark side, you can immediately perform an action before the encounter begins, but each enemy in the encounter adds a success to the results of their initiative check.

SPEAKER_10 2:17:36

I'm gonna shoot at the old king and I'm gonna use the points that I uh I wanna see if I can cut off the head, basically.

SPEAKER_01 2:17:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:17:45

Uh the head of this guy, so let's see.

SPEAKER_01 2:17:48

Okay, so you can use your foresight to get a free action before this starts. Are you gonna add, uh, because you're using two darks, are you gonna add um two successes, an advantage and a success, or two advantages?

SPEAKER_10 2:18:02

I'm gonna add a success and a advantage.

SPEAKER_01 2:18:05

Okay. So, uh you would be short range from this this king. He's got uh four points of adversary. So that is gonna be against a red and three purples if you're shooting him with your gun.

SPEAKER_10 2:18:19

Okay. Um, and I am. Okay, uh how many destiny points do we got? No. Okay. Uh let's fucking go then. So I got a uh a success and two threats. So that would be two success and one threat.

SPEAKER_01 2:18:33

You can blast this guy. You don't kill him, but you do rip a nasty burning hole into his side. Oh yeah. I don't know if this is good or not. Uh oh, that's that's I hate that sentence. So in retaliation for daring to shoot him, uh, he's gonna use the unleash power against you. So as he mentioned, he's got a uh force rating of six. Oh, interesting. Six lights, two darks.

SPEAKER_10 2:18:59

And what does that mean?

SPEAKER_01 2:19:02

And he's gonna be rolling that along with a uh discipline check. What do you what do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? Yeah, okay. So six lights, two darks. So I I am gonna give you a destiny point here. Okay. To use it as a maneuver. So he blasts you. There's a flash of blue lightning as he blasts you. Uh, mostly just as as a sort of reaction, where it's like, how dare you? Fair, honestly fair, for his I would do the same thing for his action. He's gonna hurl you. Oh, like out the window? Um, not out the window. Oh, interesting. He failed his discipline role to hurl you. Instead, he hurls himself, as in he throws up. He can still move you. I'm gonna give you actually a chance to um give me a give me a discipline here. Uh, what kind of discipline? Three red and two purple. Fuck you.

SPEAKER_10 2:19:57

I'm not gonna flip a destiny, I'm just gonna fail it with pride.

SPEAKER_01 2:20:00

Seven threat. You failed your discipline rule to resist, so he can still move you. So he's- To a bigger house! He still picks you up and throws you down the hall. Uh, this was a three purple, so he throws you long range, so you go skidding pretty far down the hall, past the range of your gun, but uh you find yourself in kind of like far enough that you're you you sort of slide and hit against a bulkhead, and you can see like down in adjacent hall, you're kind of like at this crossroads now with this fork in the hallway, so it's like if you look straight back from where you came, you can see the people fighting. If you look left, you can see where the helicopters are dropping your ship inside the hangar bay of this buried starship.

SPEAKER_10 2:20:48

Okay, that's a good sign. I mean, it's a sign. We we know where our finish line is.

SPEAKER_01 2:20:54

And uh you can hear, so now it is uh Vistara's turn, you can hear on like the radios of the guys that are in the hangar, Vistara's voice, because it's her turn now, and she says, the aliens have assassinated the king. We need backup, we need backup right now! And some of the guys they start running towards the hallway. I don't think any of these guys really know how to use a starship. Oh good. Um, so what is there a way that we can like command the starship? Potentially, yeah, if you can. Depending on where you can get. Because like there's there's some of these soldiers that are like running, you can see them running from the hangar bay now towards where you are. They don't see you yet, it's kind of dark in there. Uh the light is low and you're on the ground, but you can see them coming. And but a lot of them, they're like running cables and things into the floor to try and siphon energy from your ship into the systems of the omen.

SPEAKER_09 2:21:55

Yeah, there's a way we can control the ship to like. Does the ship have guns?

SPEAKER_01 2:22:00

Your ship? Yeah. Uh yeah, your ship has guns. It's got a couple of turrets and missile launchers. Uh from what you can tell, the design of the ship isn't too dissimilar to the Star Destroyers that you've been on. So the omen is probably pretty heavily armed as well.

SPEAKER_09 2:22:18

I'm thinking if there's a way to get these the ships to just blast these vehicle for us.

SPEAKER_10 2:22:23

I mean, we're down here too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:22:25

Maybe.

SPEAKER_01 2:22:26

Yeah, but we can get out of the way. You can settle hurriedly. And uh Vistara, so her maneuver was calling for backup. She's still got an action that that she can take. And she's a little bit further away, so she'll have to use uh a second maneuver to get into range. Um, but she is going to attack Illyria.

SPEAKER_05 2:22:50

Bitch, what did I do?

SPEAKER_01 2:22:52

You happen to be there. Oh, two advantages. So she is very lightsabers strike your armor. She's pretty surprised that she didn't just slice you in half, but she is able to kind of like put pressure on you. So when you do take your turn, uh, you're gonna have a black on that. But now one of you can go. Chris, if you want that to be you, you can. You can see that the soldiers are kind of running, running down the hull towards you from the hangar bay. Um if somebody else wants to go, they can.

SPEAKER_09 2:23:24

I'm gonna cut this old bastard up. Can I I'm gonna dedicate a destiny point to increasing my strength.

SPEAKER_02 2:23:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:23:31

Uh force point? Yes, excuse me, force point. So he's got uh four ranks of adversary, so that is gonna be two reds, two purples.

SPEAKER_09 2:23:40

Okay. Would you give us back a destiny? You have one. Okay. One success, one despair, two advantage. What could that be?

SPEAKER_10 2:23:49

Well, nothing good.

SPEAKER_01 2:23:51

So because you got that despair, when you attack Nikander, he is just an old man. He doesn't have a lightsaber. Uh, so you can cleave through him easily. Even though he's powerful in the force, he is also a dead motherfucker.

SPEAKER_10 2:24:09

Yeah. Uh I feel like that despair is gonna bring in the entire army at us.

SPEAKER_01 2:24:15

So so Derish, uh, that's that's gonna bolster him. He's in rage, that's gonna upgrade his uh role against you, Starzan. And uh Derish is into breath play.

SPEAKER_05 2:24:29

Uh what does that mean? Choking.

SPEAKER_01 2:24:32

Force choke. So uh he's gonna upgrade, it's gonna roll his force. And he's also going to uh do a discipline. What's your discipline?

SPEAKER_09 2:24:42

What is my discipline?

SPEAKER_01 2:24:43

Uh it is one yellow, one green. Okay. So one red, one purple. Uh so he gets to upgrade his. He's I'm also gonna give him a destiny point to downgrade that to just two purples. Okay, so he gets four success, two advantage, one light, three darks. So, uh, with one of his darks, it's going to immobilize you. And he's going to use two more darks to do one wound to you. It's only two points of wound. That's not terrible. It's not terrible, but that is that is not uh what he rolled for.

SPEAKER_10 2:25:22

Oh fuck, I hate. Again, that's a bad sentence. I wish you'd come up with better sentences.

SPEAKER_01 2:25:29

So, what the discipline check was was to determine whether or not he can inflict a critical injury. Uh, so he succeeded, so he gets to uh you suffer a critical injury, adding 10 per force point spent on the check. He spent three, so he's gonna be adding 30 to whatever he rolls. Uh, and you are immobilized, so you won't be able to perform any maneuvers. You're kind of stuck there, choking a little bit. Oh, good. He only rolled a nine. Hell yeah. That gets bumped up to 39. Um, so that's a stinger. You'll increase the difficulty of your next check by one.

SPEAKER_02 2:26:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:26:02

So you take a couple of points of wound, uh, can't do any maneuvers, and if you want to take an action, it's gonna be it's gonna be harder.

unknown 2:26:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:26:09

Who's uh who's left here?

SPEAKER_01 2:26:11

Uh the old man is dead. Vistara and Derish are still alive. Chris, you are not near them. You are down by the hangar bay where the uh soldiers are running in.

SPEAKER_09 2:26:21

Do you think it's worth trying to parlay with them now that the old man is dead?

SPEAKER_05 2:26:24

But the son was the one who didn't want to leave, right? So I don't know if talking would be great.

SPEAKER_01 2:26:29

Yeah. Yeah, Derish was the one who wanted to remain isolated. Vistara was one who wanted to join the Empire.

SPEAKER_05 2:26:38

I could talk to Vistara. She's like right at me right now.

SPEAKER_10 2:26:42

Yeah, if you want to go next, you can go next if you want. I'm gonna think what I want to do.

SPEAKER_05 2:26:48

Come with us. You want to leave this place, don't you?

SPEAKER_01 2:26:50

Your friend killed my father. That was an accident. He was gonna kill us.

SPEAKER_05 2:26:57

He he he didn't want you to improve. He didn't want your your people to gain more knowledge. Give me a try. Well, I'm not very charming.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:09

Uh so this will be a charm against two reds and a purple. You have two destiny points.

SPEAKER_05 2:27:17

Uh I guess I'll roll. Get a yellow at least. Do I get the black on this one or do I get it on a physical roll?

SPEAKER_01 2:27:25

Um, yeah, it would just be any roll.

SPEAKER_05 2:27:27

Okay. Three failure, one threat.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:31

Uh, no. It doesn't matter that she killed your dad. Yeah, she's really got it out for you now.

SPEAKER_05 2:27:36

Well, I'll just die then.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:38

I mean, I hope not. Yeah, I mean she already took her she already took her turn. Um so you're not gonna die just yet. Risk.

SPEAKER_09 2:27:44

Unless uh Sarah gets back, she can save you.

SPEAKER_10 2:27:49

So I'm gonna flash my I'm gonna flash my uh lightsaber and uh tell everybody to stay uh to stay back as I go toward the ship, maybe?

SPEAKER_01 2:28:00

I'm just gonna run scream with her lightsaber out.

SPEAKER_04 2:28:02

Get the fuck away from me!

SPEAKER_01 2:28:04

Get the fuck away from me. Cause if you if you run at them, I could see I could roll a fear check for them, see if that affects them.

SPEAKER_10 2:28:12

With with my lightsaber out? Yeah. Fear me! Could I could I would I be able to use it?

SPEAKER_01 2:28:18

Because as we saw, like the cops like the like the cops were very deferential when Kala pulled her lightsaber out.

SPEAKER_10 2:28:24

Would I be able to use presence in any way?

SPEAKER_01 2:28:27

It would just be a it would just be a fear check. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:28:30

Alright, yeah, I'll run out. Uh you've convinced me. I'll run out with my this is gonna be a bad idea. I'm gonna run out with my lightsaber. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:28:37

You can turn on your lightsaber, run screaming out at them. These guys are soldiers. How how terrifying would you be at this point?

SPEAKER_10 2:28:48

How terrifying would I be? I'm just mad as hell, man.

SPEAKER_09 2:28:52

This is the maddest I've ever been.

SPEAKER_01 2:28:55

A three purple fear check for them.

SPEAKER_04 2:28:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:28:58

Two threats. So they see you running at them. A freaky green alien wielding a lightsaber running at them screaming. Fear takes hold of them. They got they got two threats. They take strain, which they take as wound, so it physically hurts them how much they're afraid of you. Uh, they're gonna be having black, so they're pretty scared of you, this creepy alien. So you can run onto the ship.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:22

Can I can I um fly the ship so that I can maybe pick them up? Possibly?

SPEAKER_01 2:29:33

Um, if you take both of your maneuvers uh to to run, take some strain, you could make it to the ship into the cockpit or into like the gunner turret, and you could use your action to do something. As you get the ship booted up, uh you do notice that they have plugged a lot of cables into the floor from your ship. Uh there is something on the readout that shows that the ship, its energy is being connected to the omen.

SPEAKER_10 2:30:08

Okay, well, let's disconnect that uh right away if we can.

SPEAKER_01 2:30:11

Yeah, because if you pull up, like it's just extension cables basically. Okay, so yeah, I'll just just fucking take them out then. Because once you yeah, if you take if you take off, they'll just snap. Uh do you want to take off? Because again, the repulsors are tricky here.

SPEAKER_10 2:30:27

I feel like I need to do something. I I well I guess because uh Mike had the idea before of like using guns to point at a direction. Am I still able to do that?

SPEAKER_01 2:30:38

Uh yeah, so your ship, it's got uh turrets, kind of like Millennium Falcon style, one on the top, one on the bottom, that can rotate. If you want to run to the turret instead of the uh cockpit, you could, or you could remote control the turrets from the cockpit. You've also got uh concussion missile launchers on the front. Some concussion missiles.

SPEAKER_10 2:30:59

Is there is there a I don't know, is there a like a point of power that I can aim that can that I can aim at that'll really kinda like mess things over?

SPEAKER_01 2:31:10

You're in the hangar bay, so not really. Based on where the hangar bay is located, though, it seems like on the other side of the hangar wall is the hallway where everybody's fighting.

SPEAKER_10 2:31:24

On the other, okay. I'm gonna blow a big hole in the wall of that place if I can.

SPEAKER_01 2:31:30

Okay. So the ship, I can assume it's facing the right way. So roll me a gunnery then.

SPEAKER_10 2:31:38

Let's roll a gunnery. I think I'm okay at gunnery. Yeah, I am okay at gunnery. So you're you're just trying to blast the wall right in front of you? Uh yeah. Just so I can hopefully get them a way out.

SPEAKER_01 2:31:48

Okay. If we need. So we'll call it a one purple, because it's like you're just pulling the trigger basically. Three success. Okay, three success. So, those of you who are in the hallway, as Chris pulls the trigger, the wall explodes open, fireball, debris everywhere. There is now a uh a nice exit into the hangar bay if you need it, but because Chris just kind of randomly pulled the trigger, uh, didn't get any advantage, didn't get any threat. So it's not going to be localized to either you guys or the enemies. So you got three success. Why doesn't everybody roll me a three purple resilience to avoid getting blasted? My bad. It's okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:32:36

One success, two threat.

SPEAKER_09 2:32:38

Okay, then I get to add my force dice. Eight success, one threat, one dark side, two light side. Could I use that to help somebody else?

SPEAKER_01 2:32:46

Um, well, you could use the dark side to get rid of the threat. There you go. Vistar rolls, she gets three failures, but three advantages. So she gets hit by some debris. She got those three advantages, so she doesn't take the full the full brunt of the explosion, uh, but she does get pinned under some some wall debris as it explodes out. And Derish gets a success and a threat. So Derish is able to follow you guys, but he is kind of hampered. He's gonna be slightly delayed. Maybe maybe he'll try to save Vistara. Probably not. But if you guys want to try and make a break for the ship uh through the hole in the rubble, you can.

SPEAKER_05 2:33:30

Yes. Let's go back to the Empire and get him to nuke this place.

SPEAKER_01 2:33:35

So you can uh run back to the ship. Uh you're gonna have to beat Derish there. He got that threat. So this'll just be a three purple athletics.

SPEAKER_05 2:33:47

Oh, two threat.

SPEAKER_09 2:33:49

Five success, one dark side, one light side.

SPEAKER_01 2:33:52

Okay. So, Starzen, you could uh make it through, um, but Darish is gonna be able to catch up with. Hmm.

SPEAKER_09 2:34:01

Can I stop him somehow?

SPEAKER_01 2:34:04

Yeah, if you want to get in the way.

SPEAKER_09 2:34:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:34:06

So he's he's kind of low on the initiative. Uh so since you got those success, if you want to attack him instead, prevent him, uh, you can you can do that. Two reds, a purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_08 2:34:18

Do you have a destiny I can play?

SPEAKER_01 2:34:19

You have two.

SPEAKER_08 2:34:20

Three successful, advantage.

SPEAKER_01 2:34:22

So you can slice him not enough to kill him, but enough to uh he's gonna have a black on his roll. So you're just kind of getting in the way. So he's still trying to uh attack Illyria. And he's gonna he's gonna try a Hawkbat swoop. So this allows him to add his lightsaber to his force to swoop towards uh an opponent within short range. And he got four success, three advantages, three lights, two darks. So he's gonna spend one to engage the target, and one to add another advantage. So he's got a two advantage crit. Place super does uh nine. Valeria does have her armor, so she only takes eight points of wound from that.

SPEAKER_08 2:35:09

That's good. How many do you have? Fifteen!

SPEAKER_01 2:35:13

But he does get to crit and add ten. Fifty-seven becomes sixty-seven. Scattered senses, you remove all blue from skill checks until the end of the encounter.

SPEAKER_05 2:35:23

Weak sauce. Can I control critical on him?

SPEAKER_01 2:35:28

Go for it.

SPEAKER_05 2:35:28

Yay. What's his resilience?

SPEAKER_01 2:35:31

Four purple.

SPEAKER_05 2:35:32

Yippee! Two success, one threat, two dark side.

SPEAKER_01 2:35:37

Yeah. Takes four points of wound, and what what is his crit? What do you roll for that crit?

SPEAKER_05 2:35:42

Oh, give me a good one. 69! Nice, nice, nice, nice.

SPEAKER_01 2:35:48

Same thing as you scattered senses.

SPEAKER_05 2:35:50

Damn it. Damn it.

SPEAKER_01 2:35:52

But uh that's gonna be enough for you to make a break for it. Starzan is fine, you're fine. And you can run back aboard the ship. And uh Kala, Kala's not here, but we'll assume that she she went into NPC mode.

SPEAKER_09 2:36:08

She made it better.

SPEAKER_01 2:36:09

However, Argo Thrustmaster. No! Was further behind than the rest of you.

SPEAKER_05 2:36:17

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 2:36:18

You have to tell us when when uh uh somebody's falling behind. So I'm gonna see if he was able to keep up. I'll just make him do uh an athletics. Come on, buddy, you can do that.

SPEAKER_05 2:36:29

No time, we have to take off.

SPEAKER_01 2:36:30

It'll be athletics against himself. Oh no, failure with two advantages. Oh use that use that dick to give yourself a couple more feet. Yeah, he's not gonna make it, so he pulls his pants down, ties it into a lasso, and throws it. Oh boy. Doesn't help.

SPEAKER_09 2:36:51

You're telling me this character is only a one that's cruelty. He needs to be in every episode, not just one.

SPEAKER_01 2:37:00

If somebody wants if somebody wants to grab his lasso and pull him in, they can. On second thought, maybe he should die.

SPEAKER_10 2:37:07

I do want to save him. He's kind of my boy. Can I uh there's no space to fly towards him?

SPEAKER_01 2:37:13

Um there is you're facing into the ship. So you're facing towards the hole that everybody's running through, including him.

SPEAKER_10 2:37:22

Can I can I can I provide cover while he runs toward us?

SPEAKER_01 2:37:27

Um with gunnery? Yeah, roll me a uh two purple gunnery with a black to avoid hitting him.

SPEAKER_10 2:37:34

Okay. Uh two purple gunnery, a black.

SPEAKER_01 2:37:38

One success. Okay, yeah, you can you can lay down some some covering fire. And you're kind of like, these are 7,000-year-old Starship walls. You're kind of tearing this place up with your with your modern ship.

SPEAKER_10 2:37:53

Oh, that's what I do. I tear the shit up.

SPEAKER_01 2:37:55

So he's able to get aboard, and so you're facing into the ship right now. Repulsors, tricky, so you have kind of two choices if you want to escape. Either try and just blast a hole out and hit the thrusters and hope you come out the other side as you're just like blowing up the ship from the inside, blowing up the walls ahead of you, or somebody fixes the repulsors, tries to get them to work. So you can turn around and blast off. Who's good at the city?

SPEAKER_10 2:38:24

I'm currently covering. Is there anybody that's good enough at mechanics, or should I blast a hole? Lyria, are you good at mechanics?

SPEAKER_05 2:38:33

I have no ranks, but I have four intelligence.

SPEAKER_09 2:38:37

Yeah, yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 2:38:41

And since he's ranks. Since he well, since he's um on the ship now, Argo can help. He can provide some unskilled assistance. Hell yeah. So to uh keep the repulsors running, keep them from failing, that's gonna be a give you a destiny point, a red and a purple.

SPEAKER_05 2:38:58

And assistance?

SPEAKER_01 2:39:00

Uh you get a blue.

SPEAKER_05 2:39:01

For success!

SPEAKER_01 2:39:02

Alright, so you can keep the repulsors running as Chris lifts off wobbly in the hangar and turns the ship around. You can blast off straight up into the air. They don't have starships here, so all you need to do is break atmosphere, and you are safely away from this planet.

SPEAKER_10 2:39:26

Well, uh, put put a target put a target on it for demolition.

SPEAKER_09 2:39:33

If anyone's making any kind of massive super weapons, now would be a good time to use it to destroy this fucking place.

SPEAKER_01 2:39:39

Or, you know, conventional orbital bombardment. That would be other. Uh, but yeah, you can definitely keep this one in your logs of places to avoid, uh, potentially. But this place was supposed to be, they were the descendants of the Sith. The Sith are supposed to be misunderstood, aren't they? Maybe something to ponder. But it turns out that this whole uh quest to potentially find a link to the Sith may have turned out to be a bit of a bust. So, uh, who knows, Chris? Maybe you'll have to seek new allies with the witches of Daphmir, and you'll have to uh see what's going on again, off again, on again with Zinn next time on Star Wars Empire Wreckers. This week's episode is brought to you by our top patrons, Alpha Bros 522, David B, Eric Charles Perazzo, Jeffrey Zamuto, Joshua Winter, Laser, LKB, Matthew Lynette, Suki Nintendo, Thomas Davidson, and Vaginator.